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Western University to pilot 'lived experience' training for medical students, committee hears
Summary
Western University will pilot a 'lived experiences' curriculum March 3 that brings community members with disabilities and their caregivers into medical-student training; the Sweet Home Health Committee discussed logistics, privacy protections and outreach to local families.
Jeanne, a presenter from Western University, told the Sweet Home Health Committee the school is piloting a new curriculum that replaces actor 'standardized patients' with community members who have lived experience of disabilities to teach medical students how to communicate and interact with those patients.
"Our new curriculum is lived experiences. We really want people in our community that have these lived experiences to come in with their caregivers... and teach medical students how to interact with them," Jeanne said. She told the committee the pilot session is scheduled for March 3 at the medical school in Lebanon and invited local families to participate, noting her contact information is on the flyer provided to the committee.
Committee members asked about length, privacy and whether hands-on osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) would be required. Jeanne said sessions will likely be no longer than an hour to limit participant anxiety and that any hands-on OMM would be optional and guided by family consent. "Some of them will opt out of doing OMM... so we're kind of managing that right now," she said.
Jeanne said the curriculum has been piloted twice on the Pomona campus and that grant funding supports research to expand the program. Committee members suggested observing the first session in Lebanon and discussed whether the program could be brought to Sweet Home after the initial pilot.
