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Published in Pat Croskerry, Karen S. Cosby, Mark L. Graber, Hardeep Singh, Diagnosis, 2017
Pat Croskerry, Karen S. Cosby, Mark L. Graber, Hardeep Singh
e-patient (and the e-patient movement): a healthcare consumer who fully participates in his medical care and considers himself an equal partner with his doctor(s). The phrase e-patient was first coined by Tom Ferguson, the founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine. An e-patient is equipped, enabled, empowered, and engaged and encouraged to use electronic (and Internet) resources.
How do health professionals acknowledge Web-based knowledge in pregnancy consultations?
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2018
Eva Haukeland Fredriksen, Karen Marie Moland, Janet Harris
The professionals in our study had a range of different attitudes to women's e-HL and the Web-based knowledge that they brought into the consultation room. Some had turned to a strategy of utilizing e-HL in pregnancy consultations, others seemed to resist and dismiss e-HL, while the rest seemed to adapt to the pressure in a rather reactive manner and accept e-HL as inevitable. The e-patient revolution had encouraged midwives and some doctors to implement a “net-friendly” clinical practice, but ability to include Web-based resources in consultations varied according to time allocated to each patient, professional roles and Internet experience. Generally, they reported that the e-health revolution had resulted in more demanding patients, which challenged their professional roles. For the GP's, this also challenged their role as gatekeepers, and many were ambivalent to women's e-HL and Web-based knowledge in health. Most midwives had a proactive approach, and were eager to utilize and improve women's e-HL. In contrast, the physiotherapists did not recognize women's e-HL and Web-based knowledge in health as important issues in the consultation room. They focused on giving women tools to manage their health problems by giving tailored health information and by improving individual women's bodily awareness.
Reply to: Response to: “But Dr Google said…” – Training medical students how to communicate with E-patients
Published in Medical Teacher, 2019
You are correct that papers exploring specific strategies for dealing with situations created by e-patient activities are needed. We did not explore these in depth in our paper because of several reasons, three of which are:Because the notion of teaching medical students about e-patients is still in its infancy, the requirement is currently for individual studies on single interventions, supplying verified empirical data in a localized and strictly controlled environment. This allows for proper testing but will also allow researchers to correct any circumstances that may disadvantage any students. This was one reason that we chose a cross-over design in our study.Broader strategies require in-depth discussions, and space is limited in a journal article. It is for this reason that the more expanded version of the AMEE Guide to the e-patient (Masters 2018) has been published. That Guide addresses the background to the e-patient in more depth, and then also refers to more detailed examples (including the CREDIBLE system to which you refer, and e-patient Dave’s TED Talk (deBronkart 2011)).Because medical schools teach their work in so many varied ways, providing strict guidelines is very difficult, and many recommendations would be only partially applicable across the board. That said, we are conducting other e-patient-related research, some of which deals specifically with medical students’ evaluation of medical websites.
“But Dr Google said…” – Training medical students how to communicate with E-patients
Published in Medical Teacher, 2019
A. Herrmann-Werner, H. Weber, T. Loda, K. E. Keifenheim, R. Erschens, S. C. Mölbert, C. Nikendei, S. Zipfel, K. Masters
Finally, although seeking information on the Internet and bringing it to the consultation is probably the most obvious e-patient activity, e-patients engage in other activities (Masters et al. 2010) that have not been addressed in this study.