Ever since the formation of the Society for Participatory Medicine we have discussed curating and sharing resources about participatory medicine. The resources might be videos, websites, blog posts, tutorials, and other online resources that could benefit patients, caregivers, and clinicians.<\/p>\n
For obvious reasons we thought to focus first on patient\/caregiver resources. But because of the\u00a0many online resources available we felt we needed some dedicated leadership to successfully curate this. We had not considered the equally important provider part of the participatory medicine equation, even though I spend a great deal of time teaching physicians and other health care providers about participatory medicine.<\/p>\n
Timing is everything. Recently, former SPM executive committee member Ileana Balcu<\/a>\u00a0asked if I had a list of participatory medicine resources for physicians for a project she was doing. I assembled a list and suggested she create a webpage of these resources that we could host as part of the SPM website. She agreed and created an important new contribution to the Society’s web offerings.<\/p>\n And it gets better. About six months ago I presented\u00a0a tutorial on\u00a0the principles of participatory medicine for physicians. This was part of a larger project about participatory medicine in cancer care that was professionally recorded. I asked the producer for my segment\u00a0so we could re-purpose it. About the time Ileana was preparing her resource page I received the produced video and we added\u00a0it\u00a0to our new page. Unlike recordings of some of my and others’ longer presentations, this was concise\u00a0(under 15 minutes) and professionally produced. We also added the video it to the\u00a0SPM’s new YouTube channel<\/a>, which we will use for many other things to come.<\/p>\n