Foundations of Equitable Patient Education

This course supports health professionals who want to improve how they educate. With a blend of video-based and live learning, this course offers tools and a framework for understanding educating from an equity perspective, followed by concrete ways to apply what has been learned.

“Your perspective is aligned with much of our other trainings--motivational interviewing, cultural humility, and trauma informed care--with a slightly different angle that is provocative and interesting.”

  • Research-based framework and tools

    - to help you identify and manage obstacles to equity in patient education

  • In-depth look at 6 common educational scenarios

    - and how they can harbor obstacles to equity

  • Learn to modify current educational practices

    - to make the most of your educational time

Distraction-free course platform on any device

  • Activities and resources in each module

    - to turn awareness into action in your context

  • Reflective practice

    - to improve how you educate patients from any social group

  • Helpful stories of failure and success

    - from professionals across medicine, nursing and public health

  • Our facilitators appreciated the dialogue raising awareness of the challenges related to how bias plays into our relationships.”
    Dr. Amy Windover, Cleveland Clinic
  • Dr. Liebel is able to take difficult concepts and not only break them down and make them simpler, but give examples that people who have no background or training in health literacy or communication can relate to.”
    Dr. Marita K. Murrman, Columbia University

Effective patient education improves health outcomes. Six decades of research proves patient education's effectiveness on patients' physical, psychological and physiological outcomes [1,2,3]. Patient education is also cost-effective [4]. For every dollar invested in patient education, 3-4 dollars are saved [5].

Patient education also has the potential to impact health equity. As an essential component of person-centered care, patient education can enable shared decision-making and foster trust and respect [6].  Patient educators know that all patients deserve care responsive to their needs, as well as to their preferred language, cultural health beliefs, and traditions [7]. 

Advancing health equity involves educating all patients effectively. This includes identifying and addressing known barriers to educating equitably across different social groups. 

Medical staff, hospital staff, and community health workers deserve professional development that helps them be more equitable educators--and therefore, more effective educators.  

Courses + Action

This course features world-class instructional design.

Using the flipped classroom model, Dr. Liebel combines video-based and live learning to increase follow-through and application of what has been learned. Participants watch approximately one hour of self-paced videos. There is a live, post-course group meeting when all participants have finished the course to allow for discussion, questions, and follow-through.

Organizations have three options: 

Course +1 hour live Q&A

1-hour live group meeting post-course engages learners

Discussion and Q&A reinforces learning

Follow-through to increase course value

Expert help in your context
Course + Consulting

Custom consulting for follow-through

Expert assistance embedding equity in patient education

Can integrate into local initiatives & priorities

Customized Course + Consulting

Course customized for your organization

Expert help taking action on local priorities for patient education

Align equity goals with reform goals

For more information

This course is available to institutions only. Please fill out the form below and Dr. Liebel will contact you to schedule a call. 

 

  1. Simonsmeier, B. A., Flaig, M., Simacek, T., & Schneider, M. (2022). What sixty years of research says about the effectiveness of patient education on health: a second order meta-analysis. Health psychology review, 16(3), 450–474. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2021.1967184
  2. Faury, S., Koleck, M., Foucaud, J., M'Bailara, K., & Quintard, B. (2017). Patient education interventions for colorectal cancer patients with stoma: A systematic review. Patient education and counseling, 100(10), 1807–1819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2017.05.034
  3. Friedman, A.J., Cosby, R., Boyko, S. et al.(2011). Effective Teaching Strategies and Methods of Delivery for Patient Education: A Systematic Review and Practice Guideline Recommendations. J Canc Educ26, 12–21 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-010-0183-x
  4. Stenberg, U., Vågan, A., Flink, M., Lynggaard, V., Fredriksen, K., Westermann, K. F., & Gallefoss, F. (2018). Health economic evaluations of patient education interventions a scoping review of the literature. Patient education and counseling, 101(6), 1006–1035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2018.01.006
  5. Bartlett E. E. (1995). Cost-benefit analysis of patient education. Patient education and counseling, 26(1-3), 87–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/0738-3991(95)00723-d
  6. Eijkelboom, M. C. L. C., Kalee, M. M., de Kleijn, R. A. M. R., van Wijngaarden, J. J. J., de Jonge, R. R. R., van der Schaaf, M. F. M., & Frenkel, J. J. (2022). Making knowledge clips with patients: What learning mechanisms are triggered in medical students?. Patient education and counseling, 105(10), 3096–3102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.06.008
  7. Office of Minority Health. (n.d.). CLAS Standards. Think Cultural Health. https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/clas/standards