Again demonstrating the versatility of social media, BIDMC oncology fellow Peter Yang created a wiki to share clinical knowledge about his field. He explained in a Facebook note to me:
I was wondering if you would mind looking at and offering any thoughts about a project I've been working on during fellowship, HemOnc.org, which is a shared online notebook/wiki for hematologist/oncologists, http://hemonc.org/Main_Page.
This type of platform allows me to not only put together a compilation of reference material for myself, but to also share it with others, and learn from the content and references other people contribute. My hope is that this will be a model for physicians in different practices to share information in a more efficient way than word of mouth and to learn from the range of clinical practices in different areas--for example in my case, sharing useful links and different methods of administering a certain chemotherapy regimen. Being a medical reference, I needed to configure it so only verified accounts can edit pages, but otherwise have kept it as open as possible. It is focused on resources that are most useful to providers, but I expect there to be increasingly more overlap with patient-centered information, since part of our job as providers is to educate and provide useful resources to our patients. For example, I already have put links to patient information for all FDA approved chemotherapy medications at http://hemonc.org/Drug_index, and I expect to put links to patient education materials under each disease in the upcoming months.
I was wondering if you would mind looking at and offering any thoughts about a project I've been working on during fellowship, HemOnc.org, which is a shared online notebook/wiki for hematologist/oncologists, http://hemonc.org/Main_Page.
This type of platform allows me to not only put together a compilation of reference material for myself, but to also share it with others, and learn from the content and references other people contribute. My hope is that this will be a model for physicians in different practices to share information in a more efficient way than word of mouth and to learn from the range of clinical practices in different areas--for example in my case, sharing useful links and different methods of administering a certain chemotherapy regimen. Being a medical reference, I needed to configure it so only verified accounts can edit pages, but otherwise have kept it as open as possible. It is focused on resources that are most useful to providers, but I expect there to be increasingly more overlap with patient-centered information, since part of our job as providers is to educate and provide useful resources to our patients. For example, I already have put links to patient information for all FDA approved chemotherapy medications at http://hemonc.org/Drug_index, and I expect to put links to patient education materials under each disease in the upcoming months.
