The Patient as Teacher: Integrating the Patient Voice into Health Professions Education

Amber King, PharmD, BCPS, FNAP; Brooke Salzman, MD; and Shoshana Sicks, EdD, discuss the rationale for using patients as teachers, the Health Mentors Program, the interprofesionalism of the program, the three modules in meeting with the patients (mentors), an example of an advocacy project, the benefits of the program, and training for the patients to be mentors with Barbara Lewis, MBA, PhDc.