Enhancing compassionate care training during pediatric residency
Jill’s fellowship implemented a longitudinal curriculum program within a pediatric residency training program. The curriculum enhanced healthcare providers’ therapeutic encounters with patients and families.
Read MoreBuilding Interprofessional Education (IPE) through the humanities
Pippa used her fellowship to strengthen the undergraduate medical program at the University of Ottawa. She facilitated IPE activities using the arts and humanities.
Read MoreDeveloping self-identity and compassionate care in nurses
Deborah wanted to know: How do advancing technologies and new approaches to nursing education influence a nurse’s self-identity and their ability to deliver compassionate care?
Read MoreUsing unconscious bias research, education, and training to reduce mental illness stigma
Javeed designed his fellowship to further his work investigating the impact of mental illness stigma on compassionate patient care. Javeed conducted qualitative research and designed anti-stigma training and education materials. The training sessions involved physicians and nurses, and were designed to help them become more self-aware.
Read MorePromoting community service in surgery
The goal of Yvonne’s fellowship was to develop caring surgeons through volunteerism and social outreach and activism during their residency training. She promoted community outreach as part of the surgical curriculum.
Read MoreIntegrating cultural safety teaching into an undergraduate medical curriculum
This fellowship explored the Indigenous concept of cultural safety as a framework for reimagining clinical encounters in a holistic way. A key goal of the fellowship project was to integrate teachings about cultural safety and Indigenous ways of knowing into the formal undergraduate medical curriculum to enhance therapeutic encounters between healthcare providers and their patients.
Read MoreDeveloping a patient experience curriculum that increases compassionate care
Lisa chose to use her fellowship to develop a new curriculum. It was centred on using patient storytellers to prompt frontline staff to reflect on the value of compassion in patient and family centred care, and the behaviors required for this approach.
Read MoreBuilding narrative competence as a catalyst for person-centered care
Learn about Trisha’s photo documentary film and narrative medicine seminar series. She used them to help Queen’s University physiotherapy students become more person-centered in their work.
Read MoreDeveloping rapport and ethical therapeutic relationships in acute care
Michael used his fellowship to design a multifaceted education, research, and knowledge translation program. It focused on helping healthcare providers develop rapport and ethical, therapeutic relationships with patients and their families.
Read MoreA unique curriculum and practice model for compassionate, person-centered care
Marion’s fellowship helped clinicians and students value what is “best” according to evidence, and also what is “fitting” based on the unique characteristics of the people and the context in which care happens. Learn about the curriculum she developed.
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