{"id":2303,"date":"2019-01-03T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/psp\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2019-01-03T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:59:19","slug":"about-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/psp\/2019\/01\/03\/about-3\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2101\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/psp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2018\/01\/Kon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2101\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2101\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/psp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2018\/01\/Kon.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Kon\" width=\"193\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Kon M.D.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Meet the Directors<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Dr. Rachel Kon<\/strong>\u00a0is an assistant professor at UVA School of Medicine and an attending physician at University Medical Associates. She is also the Director of the<strong>Patient Student Partnership (PSP)<\/strong>, which pairs incoming medical students with patient partners.<\/p>\n<p>Although PSP is new, matching students with chronically ill patients is not new to the School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Margaret Plews-Ogan\u00a0<\/strong>piloted the\u00a0<strong>Phronesis Project<\/strong>, which was developed to foster wisdom and empathy in UVA medical students in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its three year success, the School of Medicine added this longitudinal patient experience to the curriculum. 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