title: Patient experiences of participation in a medical student teaching workshop.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the motivations for and experiences of patients who actively participate in a workshop to teach medical students about chronic disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive study using structured telephone or e-mail-based questionnaire exploring the views of 'patient tutors' who participate in a 'living with chronic disease' workshop.
  
  
  METHODS
  'Patient tutors' with a chronic medical condition who had participated in at least one 'living with chronic disease' workshop for medical students at Oxford University Medical School.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patient motivating factors can be divided into two groups, direct benefits such as companionship or improved knowledge of their condition, and a teaching role involving an altruistic desire to give something back, and wanting to educate the doctors of the future. Importantly, most patients participated multiple times over a number of years despite no remuneration for their time other than expenses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients appear highly motivated to educate medical students about chronic disease, due to a combination of personal benefits and an altruistic desire to 'give something back'. This suggests that they present an invaluable and currently undermobilized resource for the future of medical education.
authors.affiliation: University of Oxford , UK .
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Watts
authors.forename: Tess
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mcpherson
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Robson
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rawlings
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Burge
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*