The student patient alliance: development and formative evaluation of an initiative to support collaborations between patient and public involvement partners and doctoral students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While the integration of patient and public involvement (PPI) in clinical research is now widespread and recommended as standard practice, meaningful PPI in pre-clinical, discovery science research is more difficult to achieve. One potential way to address this is by integrating PPI into the training programmes of discovery science postgraduate doctoral students. This paper describes the development and formative evaluation of the Student Patient Alliance (SPA), a programme developed at the University of Birmingham that connects PPI partners with doctoral students.

Methods

Following a successful pilot of the SPA by the Rheumatology Research Group at the University of Birmingham, the scheme was implemented across several collaborating Versus Arthritis / Medical Res

SUBMITTER: Simons G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10548699 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature