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Academic Medicine, Vol. 93, No. 10 / October 2018 1421 Hearing the Patient Voice: Patients as Educators in Medical Education To the Editor: Shi and Nambudiri’s call “to more comprehensively emphasize skills and knowledge needed for trainees to manage chronic diseases” in medical education is timely. Their approaches include introducing learning about chronic care in preclinical years, prioritizing chronic care education across specialties, focusing on chronic care in the fourth year, developing chronicdisease-focused advanced clerkships, and leveraging technology. A noted omission was real patients as educators within the curriculum, an “invaluable and currently undermobilized resource for the future of medical education.”