GTA Health Mentors Event for Nov.19 and Nov 25

[A Former User]

The Centre for Interprofessional Education (IPE), University of Toronto, is seeking patients, families and caregivers to share their journey within the healthcare system and the partnerships they have experienced. These stories will be shared with students at the University of Toronto as part of the IPE learning activity, Understanding Patient/Client Partnerships in a Team Context on Monday, January 27, 2020, 3:30pm - 6:00pm, University of Toronto (St. George Campus).

The role of the IPE Patient Partner in the Understanding Patient/Client Partnerships in a Team Context is to engage and share with students regarding their story and lived experience related to health care teams, partnerships made with health teams and/or professionals, and communication with one another.

The Centre for IPE is hosting an IPE Patient /Client Partner Recruitment Event on Monday, November 25, 2019 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (TRI): Auditorium (550 University Ave., Toronto). Light food and refreshments will be served.

There will be a storytelling workshop and orientation prior to this event, as part of the training for IPE Patient/ Client Partners, on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm at Toronto

Rehabilitation Institute (TRI): Auditorium (550 University Ave., Toronto).

Another orientation will take place prior to the Understanding Patient/Client Partnerships in a Team Context learning activity on January 25th from 3:30 to 6:00 pm 2020.

We welcome all participants within Toronto and the GTA but our financial supports are limited to TTC reimbursement.

TO RSVP: Please contact Angela Corpuz (angela.corpuz@uhn.ca) or 416-603-5800 ext. 2577, for more information

[A Former User]

This program is put on by the University of Toronto Med School. They seem to be funded to the extent of extras like pizza or subway tokens but not beyond that. I can suggest they try to budget, or do a remote link up to include people in rural areas.

I imagine our Premier's mind map of Ontario is a little distorted based on where his voters are. In fact he seems to dislike Toronto in many ways.

There are inequities in rural areas especially in access, When the CIHI report comes out there will be good ammunition in it to make your point

Annette

[A Former User]

Thanks Annette. I look forward to the CIHI report. U of T Med School was not my target. It is the across the board exclusionary practice of almost 3/4 of the taxpayers in the province to events supported by taxpayer money. Plain and simple, it’s wrong. It flies in the face of all we PFA’s stand for. Any discrimination needs to be called out - be it by race, gender, colour, creed, or, in Ontario right now - geography.

[A Former User]

It irritates the hell out of me how we can extol the virtues of patient partnerships, equity and inclusiveness and respect and then say, sorry, if you don’t exist within Ford’s beloved GTA, you don’t exist at all. Is this not the height of hypocrisy, exclusivity, discrimination and elitism? Yes, by all means share with this IPE. Just one of many organizations with no backbone to stand up and just say “NO - that’s unfair”.

[A Former User]

Thanks Annette,

l would find this very interesting as my experience has always been with fractured health silos, not teams. Doctors and services in multiple LHINs who don’t communicate.

maybe I will contact and see if they are interested in hearing about that, it will still be a problem with the OHT’s.