ABSTRACT
The move away from the biomedical model of healthcare education to a more holistic, patient centred biopsychosocial model dictates early patient contact both pre- and post-registration, in education and in training. The term patient, as used in this chapter, includes people with health conditions, their carers and families and other people more widely involved in healthcare outside of formal health service provision. In this chapter we discuss the involvement of patients in teaching and describe practical approaches to achieve this. We discuss the benefits of active patient involvement with reference to the learners, the participating patients and the trainers not only from a teaching perspective but also opportunities for wider patient involvement such as curriculum development and assessments and in interviews. We will then look at the involvement of simulated and virtual patients in clinical training.
