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Patient Partners
Patient Partners are individuals who meet with small groups of medical students in an informal setting to assist with their medical training.
These volunteers, living with a condition, are the experts; they know what the symptoms feel like and how that condition affects their lives. Sharing this personal experience gives the medical students an insight that they could not gain from textbooks or lectures. Patient Partners are highly valued and integral to the training of the next generation of medical professionals.
Patient Partners have a condition from which the medical students can learn. No specialist knowledge is required by the patients and all sessions are facilitated by clinical members of staff.
Volunteer sessions take place at the School of Medicine in St Andrews and at NHS Fife community hospitals in Cupar (Adamson Hospital). Patient Partners can choose the most convenient location to attend. Travel costs are reimbursed if required.
For further information please contact:
Patient Partner Coordinator
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 1891
Email: [email protected]
What is it like being a Patient Partner and why are they so important?
Meet the Team
Ms Charlie Guy
Patient Partner Co-ordinator
Dr Rebecca Walmsley
MBChB Programme Director
Dr Kathryn Stevens
MBChB Deputy Programme Director, Phase Two
What do our current Patient Partners think?
“Come along! Staff & students are welcoming and friendly! It is a rewarding experience; not at all intimidating. Your contribution really makes a difference- and the coffee & biscuits are great!”
“My experience of patient partner volunteering has been very positive: meeting the students is always a pleasure and providing them with some first hand knowledge of my poorly-understood condition is rewarding for me and, I think, interesting for them.”