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When universities train patients

January 26, 2025

By Eliane Patriarca THE Reading 7 min. Subscribers

Across France, universities are now training patients to transform their experience of illness into professional qualifications. With the aim of providing help to other patients, but above all, of improving the health system.

Training for patients

The training courses are intended to patients but also to doctors wishing to develop their practices. Here, at the UdP in Paris, in the heart of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital.

SORBONNE-UNIVERSITY/PIERRE KITMACHER

This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°220 dated January/March 2025.

In mid-October, candidates for the Sorbonne's university diploma in Democracy in Health start their new school year. In the classroom nestled in the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, there are about twenty of them, aged 24 to 69. Surrounded by the teaching team, the creator of the DU, Catherine Tourette-Turgis, a teacher-researcher in educational sciences, presents the origin, philosophy and pedagogy of the course, distributes student booklets, inquires about each person's background...

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