Working together today, supporting the doctors of tomorrow.
School of Medicine graduates will be practising modern medicine into the next half of the 21st century, so we need to equip our medical students with a skills-set that ensures that they know:
Patient Partners are volunteers who provide an invaluable role in the development and training of our students. We enlist the help of patient volunteers to act as ‘real patients’ so that students can develop both their communication skills as well as their diagnostic abilities in simulated real-life situations. In this respect students will be better prepared when on clinical placements in hospitals, clinic and GP practices.
We need volunteers to help train our student doctors. You can help by being a simulated and/or clinical patient.
Simulated patientsSimulated patients volunteer to ‘act’ as patients, allowing our students to learn how to undertake consultations, perform examinations and practice procedural skills - such as taking patients’ blood pressure.
Clinical patients
Clinical patients who have an existing or long term medical condition, volunteer to discuss their symptoms and condition with our students in order to increase their knowledge and understanding of different conditions from the patients’ perspective.
“Speaking to real patients via the Patient Partners group has been invaluable. The truth is, however hard you try you can never properly predict how a patient will feel in reaction to your communication skills. A fantastic group of people we are all very grateful for”. (Quote from ARU medical student)
If you are interested in taking part in this invaluable work with us, we ask you to complete and return the short Patient Partners application form below.
We will consider your application and ask you to attend a short, informal selection interview. Once accepted into the Patient Partners, we will provide you with any necessary training.
Teaching and assessments will be held in the School of Medicine building at our Chelmsford campus.
There is no maximum or minimum number of times you would be required as this will depend entirely on your availability. However, we would normally ask you to commit to a minimum of two half-days across the academic year.
Please download the Patient Partners Information Leaflet
Download and read:
Patient Partners newsletter June 2020
Patient Partners newsletter May 2020
Or email: patientvolunteer@anglia.ac.uk for further details on the group.