Cathy enjoyed the collaborative aspect of a joint training initiative she attended.
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Again, back to being a participant in the Canadian Task Force of Preventative Health Care, someone from there, [name] actually, sent me an email saying, “This course is coming up, are you interested?” So they gave me an outline of it. It was the first time the course had been offered and I like doing things that are first time through, so we kind of all learned together.
What they did with it too was they had the researchers and the patient caregiver participants together for one whole webinar and then we had homework and we needed to respond and we did some quizzes based on our knowledge from that particular session. There were four sessions and at one of them researchers did their own webinar specific to their needs and issues, while patients did another one because there certainly is a point at which your interests and needs are diverse. But I found it very interesting because the researchers were very responsive to the patients’ issues and likewise [unintelligible] and I think we all came away with a better understanding of our current roles and potential roles.
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