Inaugural Meeting: Network on Patient Partnership in Health Professional Education

On 22 September 2025 we held the first meeting of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Network on Patient Partnership in Health Professional Education. The meeting, attended by over 40 network members from across Canada, marked the transition to a formal AFMC Network from the informal network nurtured over the past two years jointly by UBC Patient & Community Partnership for Education and the Centre d’excellence sur le partenariat avec les patients et le public (Université de Montréal). As an AFMC network we will receive administrative support, a workspace to share resources and, most importantly, opportunities to raise our profile nationally with senior leadership. Although under the auspices of AFMC, the network is open to all health professions and patient partners. At future meetings we will co-create what we hope the network will accomplish as well as continue to share our experiences with patient partnerships in health professional education.

Interested in joining the network? Email: angela.towle@ubc.ca.