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"Our experience with the calculators shows that it helps surgeons improve the quality of care they provide their patients because it improves shared decision making and patient-centered informed consent."

The Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit

"The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, a first-of-its-kind social media center focused on health care, builds on Mayo Clinic's leadership among health care providers in adopting social media tools, which began with podcasting in 2005. Mayo Clinic has the most popular medical provider channel on YouTube and more than 60,000 "followers" on Twitter, as well as an active Facebook page with well over 20,000 connections. With its News Blog, Podcast Blog and Sharing Mayo Clinic, a blog that enables patients and employees to tell their Mayo Clinic stories, Mayo has been a pioneer in hospital blogging. MayoClinic.com, Mayo's consumer health information site, also hosts a dozen blogs on topics ranging from Alzheimer's to The Mayo Clinic Diet."

Today's definition of medical professionalism is evolving - from autonomy to accountability, from expert opinion to evidence-based medicine, and from self-interest to teamwork and shared responsibility. For many, medical professionalism is the "heart and soul of medicine." More than the adherence to a set of medical ethics, it is the daily expression of what originally attracted them to the field of medicine - a desire to help people and to help society as a whole by providing quality health care. But many physicians today experience profound obstacles to fulfilling the ideals of medical professionalism in practice.

A Ning group devoted to sharing experiences of using Second Life in education.

started with mainly neurological conditions but allows patients to share experiences of illness and treatments

A helpful YoutTube video giving an overview of bookmarking ont he web and how this can help you organise and annoate web content and then share it with others or keep it private.

Hello Zakkal I thought you might find this interesting:) Students sharing.

explores nhs agenda with regards to sharing EBM with patients

The worlds biggest medical study group shares Health & Clinical Sciences Papers

The behavioral sciences are taught in medical curricula around the world. In the current paper psychologists teaching in medical schools in Australia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States share their experience and refl

portal to allow patients to share stories and experiences and get support

Online discussion forum and resources for those involved in teaching clinical skills

an open forum for professionals to communicate, discuss topics and share ideas with each other

"Welcome! This is a place where stories about Canadian family medicine are shared by family physicians, patients, and their communities. These stories deliver powerful messages about the meaning of being a family physician, and about the contributions of family medicine and family physicians to the history of medicine, health care and life in Canada."

Doctors from Puerto Rico who are helping in Hairi shared pictures on Facebook which many think are inappropriate.

"The CHEC-CESC Commons is a place to support collaborative learning and teaching for the health professions. Members can interact, share, and create resources in a secure and simple online environment."

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

There is a learning curve, but it's oddly addictive.

"Patients and clinicians share why it's important to ask questions and offer ways that you can ask questions and get your health care needs met. In these short, compelling videos, patients talk about how simple questions can help you take better care of yourself, feel better, and get the right care at the right time. Doctors and nurses talk about how your questions help them take better care of you and offer advice on how you can be an active member of your health care team and get your most pressing questions answered."

"The purpose of this medical community is to create a possibility, where most of the needs of physicians, residents, medicals students, physician assistants, nurses, technologists and industry can be melted within one central medical network. It is based on a "taking and giving" principle, where you share your knowledge and others do the same."