Do you have, or do you know someone with, a chronic health condition who would be a good mentor and would like to share their expertise?

Patient & Community Partnership for Education at UBC is seeking 3-4 individuals to be a part of a unique educational program in which teams of students from different health and human service programs learn together from/with a mentor (patient/client/caregiver). The program will run from September, 2016 to December, 2017. Applications are being accepted until July 31, 2016.

Beginning in the Fall, student teams (4 students per team) will visit their mentor six times (twice per term) over the course of 16 months, each visit focusing on specific topics. The Health Mentor program will help students learn about chronic disease and about the range of work involved in chronic disease self-management from the perspective of the patient and family.

This program would be ideal for caregivers of those with health issues to share their experiences with the health science students at UBC.

For more information: www.pcpe.health.ubc.ca/healthmentors | cameron.rogers@ubc.ca.