Person-centredness in Healthcare Curricula Erasmus Project

Project Title

Person-centredness in Healthcare Curricula

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

This project builds on an already established and strong global partnership that exists to advance person-centred healthcare. The aim of the project is to develop an international curriculum framework for educating future person-centred healthcare practitioners. Person-centred healthcare is an approach to healthcare delivery that places the beliefs and values of patients and families at the centre of decision-making. In doing this, healthcare practitioners need to be able to treat patients and families as actively engaged partners in care. This is achieved through person-centred assessment, the design of a care plan arising from that assessment and implementing the care plan in partnership with patients and families. All of this is supported by organisational cultures that are committed to person-centred healthcare at all levels of the organisation/system. There is a global evidence-base showing the benefits of a person-centred approach to healthcare delivery at individual, unit and systems levels. However, to our knowledge few curricula exist that are person-centred and that focus on educating future person-centred healthcare practitioners and leaders. Whilst many curricula have some components of person-centredness built into particular courses, there are very few curriculum frameworks in place to educate healthcare practitioners.

So this project aims to address this agenda by developing an international curriculum framework for educating future person-centred healthcare practitioners. We will do this by achieving the following objectives:
1. Co-creating a set of themes to underpin healthcare curricula that can be used to develop person-centred practitioners who work with people in a variety of contexts.
2. Identifying learning outcomes and professional qualities that meet the needs of stakeholders in the partner countries.
3. Generating a new curriculum framework for the development of the future person-centred graduate practitioner.
4. Designing a suite of stakeholder-focused innovative assessment strategies for use in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula.

We will achieve these objectives through a combination of learning, teaching and training events, intellectual outputs and multiplier events that aim to use creative, collaborative and inclusive methodologies. These activities will be open to a wide range of people, hosted in 6 different countries, and which will lead to sustainable outcomes. We have identified 8 intellectual outputs that together will lead to the achievement of a person-centred curriculum framework that will have been co-designed with everyone who might be impacted by the outcomes of the work now or in the future. These intellectual outputs are supported by and brought to life through making openly available teaching, learning and assessment tools and processes that can be used to implement person-centred approaches. The planned multiplier events will build a global community of learners committed to advancing the quality of person-centred healthcare globally. This community of learners will be facilitated and enabled by ‘The International Community of Practice for person-centred practice (PcP-ICoP), thus ensuring the sustainability of the project outcomes long-term. The PCP-ICoP is a community of collaborating organisations committed to the advancement of person-centredness in clinical practice, research, education/learning, facilitation, management, policy and strategy. It is hosted by Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh with partners currently coming from across the UK, The Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Republic of Ireland, Slovenia, Australia and New Zealand. New partners are joining all the time, thus increasing the global reach, influence and impact of the PCP-ICoP. The PCP-ICOP will actively use implementation science principles and practices to sustain the presence and growth of the project outcomes and outputs in healthcare curricula globally and will be adapted to future demands as healthcare cultures change and develop.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 305991 Eur

Project Coordinator

QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH & Country: UK

Project Partners

• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU
• UNIVERSITETET I SOROST-NORGE
• UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
• STICHTING FONTYS
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
• THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN