Patient Education Program
The Patient Education Program improves patient experience by facilitating evidence-based person-centred care and advancing the quality of patient education in Ontario. The program’s focus spans across the cancer continuum, from screening to survivorship and end-of-life care.
Our Patient Education Committee helps drive the program’s work forward across the province. The committee is made up of the patient education leads from each region. The leads are healthcare professionals from varied backgrounds within the cancer system.
Purpose
- Advance the quality of patient and family education services
- Enhance and develop patient and family education skills and knowledge among cancer care providers
- Ensure patients and families have access to information, tools and opportunities for skill development and support across the cancer continuum
Program Initiatives
- Develop and implement patient symptom management guides
- Define and develop provincial standards for self-management programming
- Implement Your Learning Matters, a provincial patient and family education survey, and address the results by developing quality improvement initiatives
- Support programs across Cancer Care Ontario in developing patient-facing material
- Assess progress of the Regional Cancer Programs in providing comprehensive cancer patient education services
- Develop quality indicators based on the provision of quality patient and family information and education
- Promote evidence-based patient-provider teaching and education strategies through guideline development and knowledge translation
- Support the development of cancer care provider patient education skills and knowledge by encouraging the uptake of the Maximizing your Patient Education Skills (MPES) course
- Engage with patient and family advisors to validate their information needs, and integrate those needs into the cancer care pathway maps.
Get Involved
- Are you a healthcare provider? Take the Patient Teaching and Education course to learn how to identify types of adult learners and tailor patient teaching accordingly.
- To join monthly Person-Centred Care rounds, email Person-Centred Care.
Email Program
If you have any questions or comments, email the Patient Education Program.
Related Links
- Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) Find in-person and online professional education opportunities and resources for creating patient education programs