Stakeholder engagement (including PPI) in healthcare communication research and education

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), or ‘Stakeholder engagement’ to include a wider range of stakeholders such as healthcare professionals or medical students, is a key element of inclusive healthcare communication research and education. Effective healthcare communication depends on successful engagement of healthcare providers as well as service users. Stakeholder engagement involves collaborating with the people whom the research is designed to impact, to 1) gain additional perspectives, 2) ensure research is relevant, meaningful and meets their needs, and 3) assists in the production of information and communication recommendations, education, or tools that are understandable and useful for them.
This symposium will showcase healthcare communication research projects that have engaged a wide variety of stakeholders into the design, operationalization, and/or implementation and dissemination. One project involves stakeholder engagement in medical education development. Speakers will discuss how they practically involved stakeholders, the benefit that their involvement provided, lessons learned, and any challenges that they encountered.