Angela
Towle,
PhD
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine
Angela Towle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Senior Scholar in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada. She is also Co-Director of Patient & Community Partnership for Education in the Office of UBC Health, a unit with a research and development focus on patient/client involvement in health professional education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
People living with chronic health concerns have important life and health care experiences that can enrich interprofessional education (IPE). For 10 years Patient & Community Partnership for Education has coordinated an Interprofessional Health Mentors program (HMP) at the University of British Columbia, Canada. The HMP is an elective educational experience in which teams of students from different disciplines learn from and with a mentor who has a chronic condition or disability, or is a caregiver. The program provides learning relevant to interprofessional competencies with an emphasis…