Genuine and meaningful patient, caregiver, and community (PCC) engagement can bring about improvements in healthcare delivery and outcomes, make research more responsive to the needs of patients and help to drive change and innovation — but if undertaken without careful consideration, PCC can be tokenistic, or marked by a lack of inclusion or action.

This module will help students to better understand and develop professional skills around best practice in patient, caregiver, and community engagement in research and innovation projects and allow opportunities to apply in-class learnings to real-world examples. The material presented in class will illustrate how much more impactful healthcare can be by "doing things with people" and not "to people."