The Caregivers Project teamed with Open Eye Pictures, an award-winning, nonprofit production company to create "The Caregivers," an educational film about caregiving for loved ones with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

The film follows patients, their family caregivers, and physicians-in-training to reveal the complexities of caregiving, patient-doctor-caregiver communications, and the health care system. The film is meant to raise awareness of the array of challenges faced by family and clinical caregivers, and to initiate alliance among them.

Because this film features the experiences of families and physicians, it has appeal for a broad audience.

• For medical education, the intended audience includes all clinicians-in-training (medical, nursing, and social work students, and residents) as well as clinician-educators.
• The film is also relevant for family caregivers (independently or in group settings) and can be used by them for discussion and to provide insight that might help them in their own roles.
• For professional development training, the film can be used within organizations to educate human resource and employee health specialists about the impact that stresses of family caregiving may have on employee wellbeing.
• This film has also been used as an internal training tool for health industry specialists.

The Caregivers Film is also available on UCTV. Please check online for dates and national channel listings.