Society for Participatory Medicine

What is Participatory Medicine?

Participatory Medicine is a movement in which patients and health professionals actively collaborate and encourage one another as full partners in healthcare.

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The Society:
WHO WE ARE +
WHAT WE DO

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FROM THE JOURNAL

Proof of Concept for a Digital Framework to Support a Shared Agenda at Surgical Ward Rounds: Participatory Design Study

Background: Surgical ward rounds (SWRs) are often unstructured and deprioritized compared to traditional surgical tasks, leading to limited interdisciplinary collaboration, unprepared patients, and lo …

Feasibility and Effectiveness of an Urgent Care–Community Partnership to Reduce Disparities in Patient Portal Uptake: Quality Improvement Project

Background: Patient portals demonstrate significant potential for improving healthcare engagement but face critical adoption challenges. Disparities persist across different demographic groups, creati …

FROM THE BLOG

Learning Health Systems Empower Every American to Actually Make America Healthy Again Together, Part 2

Published 5/29/2025 in SPM Blog

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of Josh Rubin’s post. The first was published on May 23, 2025 Building Upon a Powerful Foundation of Patient Empowerment In part 1 of this post I paraphrased Dr. Casey... read more ❯

OUR MANIFESTO

Participatory Medicine Manifesto

Our revolutionary manifesto was created by the members of the Society to help people better understand what participatory medicine is really all about. Once you see the common-sense principles of participatory medicine, you'll get it too!

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