Carolyn
Canfield
Citizen-Patient and Adjunct Professor
University of British Columbia
Carolyn Canfield works as a citizen-patient to expand partnerships for patients and communities in health professional education, services improvement, policy research and governance. Following healthcare tragedy in 2008, her full-time activism earned recognition in 2014 as Canada’s first Patient Safety Champion and faculty appointment in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. University roles include joining the Department of Family Practice’s Innovation Support Unit; teaching patient safety in medicine and nursing; and selecting candidates for medical school. Serving Canadian and international research as a co-researcher, advisor and funding/publishing reviewer. Co-founded in 2017 the peer-led independent Patient Advisors Network (patientadvisors.ca), building citizen-patient capacity and leadership.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Seminar Description: Abstract
Background:
Engagement with patients, families and other community members in the design and delivery of interprofessional education is increasingly seen as beneficial, but there are many questions about how to do this in a good way. As part of a recent research project, we co-created with patients and the public a set of evidence-informed guiding principles, models and processes for the authentic, ongoing and sustainable engagement of patients and the public in health professional education. We identified from the literature a set of guiding principles of…