Conference paper Gold Open Access 2024

Chronically ill patients and adherence: a new challenge for educators committed to training future health professionals

International Conference on Higher Education Advances
Conference · pp. 264-271
Abstract

As academic educators committed to training future health professionals, we should understand and address the new educational needs they may perceive as a result of the global increase in the number of chronically ill patients. This paper aims to present a new learning/teaching strategy that has been implemented in a bachelor course for health professionals, based on the evidence of: a) the complexity of the issue of therapeutic adherence; b) the lived experience of chronic illness as a personal matter; c) the usefulness of therapeutic patient education (TPE) conceived only as a transmissive practice. In this course, some lectures were combined with workshops in which students were asked to deal with a real patient's story for whom they had to define an educational plan. The results show the success of the creative choices implemented from a training perspective and the satisfaction of the learners asked to experiment in the classroom a work practice with a high rate of autonomy. © 2024 International Conference on Higher Education Advances.

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collaborative learning medical education self-directed learning Chronic ill patients Therapeutic Patient Education

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Department of FISPPA (Phylosophy, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, PD, Italy
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