[Patients' University, illness and learning]

Abstract

The Patients' University, a pilot project at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, enables patients-experts to follow a degree program in patient therapeutic education (University Diploma and Master). Recently, graduate patients and patients directly concerned proposed to co-create a new university certificate for treatment pathway coordinators for breast cancer, rounding out the 120-hour university certificate program on healthcare democracy and meeting the recommendations of the new cancer plan.

Keywords: cancer; parcours de soins; patient expert; patient-expert; therapeutic education; treatment pathway; university; université; éducation thérapeutique.