Patient Partner Perspectives: The Experience of Participating in a Co-Designed Virtual Reality Project.

Patient partners (PP) are well positioned to make meaningful contributions to healthcare through their lived experiences and personal narratives. However, researchers must ensure that patients are engaged authentically and collaboratively in knowledge generation. As part of a larger project, 4 PP were engaged in the co-design of a virtual reality video aimed at promoting an understanding of patients' lived experience with COVID-19 during the initial phase of the pandemic.

Experiencing COVID-19 Through the Patient Lens to Promote Empathy: Pilot Testing a Virtual Reality Learning Opportunity.

Understanding the patient's experience with COVID-19 was essential to providing high-quality, person-centered care during the pandemic. Having empathy or being able to understand and respond to the patient's experience may lead to improved outcomes for both patients and clinicians. There is mixed evidence about how best to teach empathy, particularly related to promoting empathy during COVID-19.

The involvement of trauma survivors in hospital-based injury prevention, violence intervention and peer support programs: A scoping review.

Background: Despite decades-long involvement of trauma survivors in hospital-based program delivery, their roles and impact on trauma care have not been previously described. We aimed to characterize the literature on trauma survivor involvement in hospital-based injury prevention, violence intervention and peer support programs to map what is currently known and identify future research opportunities.

Methods: A scoping review was conducted following the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology.

Patient engagement in the Continuing Professional Development programs within the department of radiation oncology at the University of Toronto (UTDRO): A qualitative study.

Introduction: There is little research regarding patient engagement (PE) in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs in radiation oncology. This study aims to understand the barriers and enablers to PE in the design and implementation process of CPD programs, and advance PE in these programs moving forward.

Methods: This qualitative study involved 17 semi-structured interviews, with 5 cancer patients and 12 educators, conducted from June 2019 to April 2020.

Evaluation of an Online Education Resource on Radiation Therapy Created for Patients with Postprostatectomy Prostate Cancer and Their Caregivers.

Introduction: Radiation therapy (RT) after prostatectomy is an important curative treatment option for patients with prostate cancer. It can be delivered immediately after surgery as adjuvant treatment, or after biochemical PSA failure as salvage treatment. There is currently a lack of consensus regarding whether salvage RT in the event of biochemical failure or immediate adjuvant RT is the optimal postprostatectomy RT treatment.