Patient Engagement Trainings

EUPATI Fundamentals

EUPATI Fundamentals is a training about Patient Engagement addressed to professionals in academia and pharmaceutical industry. EUPATI Fundamentals’ mix of practical and classroom learning guides professionals through the processes of engaging patients throughout medicines development providing a strong foundation for successful partnership with patients and patient organisations. The focus of the course remains basic knowledge about patient involvement with an overall introduction to standards and best practices, and a library of practical exercises.

The training is organised as a two half-days live streamed online training or a 1-day face-to-face training (if the COVID 19 situation allows this format).

• • Module 1: Principles of patient engagement
    Understand the reasons and benefits for patient engagement in medicines R&D

• • Module 2: Patient engagement roadmap
    Explain the needs and time points at which patient engagement should occur in medicines R&D

• • Module 3: Setting up a patient engagement activity
    Evaluate which types of interactions and patient profiles should be used at different stages of medicines R&D

• • Module 4: Quality criteria in patient engagement
    Identify and address challenges when operationalising patient engagement

EUPATI Essentials (coming soon)

Based on the EUPATI Fundamentals, EUPATI Essentials will be taking the issues and practices of patient involvement a few steps further and will explore and explain the details of a few key areas in the work with patients and their organisations. These modules are under development and will be piloted and then implemented throughout 2021.

• Module 1 – Initiating first contact with patients
• Module 2 – Eliciting meaningful patient input
• Module 3 – Engaging a patient centric vendor
• Module 4 – Patient engagement roadmap and novel clinical trial designs
• Module 5 – Conflict of interest for professionals