A new Consumer Health Advocacy Certificate has been approved for graduate and professional students who participate in the Center for Patient Partnerships based at the UW Law School. Students from the schools of medicine and public health, nursing, pharmacy, and law who successfully complete the designated course of study at the Center will earn the 12-credit certificate confirming their training as advocates to help patients and their families navigate the health care system.
The certificate curriculum will provide graduate students with key knowledge of health-consumer perspectives, advanced health advocacy training, and tools to strategically advance health care reform efforts.
"This new certificate is an excellent complement for many professional and graduate students who want to gain specific advocacy skills that will enhance their work in the health care system," says Clinical Assistant Professor Sarah Davis, Associate Director of the Center. "It draws from courses around campus, making it a truly interdisciplinary certificate that will encourage interprofessional learning and practice."
Anyone wishing to learn more about the certificate may do so at the Center’s Web site,
Submitted by on July 21, 2008
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