Meducate Me! Healthcare Education Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Educating patients and HCPs offers its unique challenges... often seen differently through the lens of patients, caregivers, HCPs, educators, pharmaceutical/device manufacturers, hospital administrators, insurance providers and regulatory. Meducate Me! provides a forum for these voices who may see things from a different perspective, but who share a common goal... helping patients. Successful healthcare education has a lot of crucial touch points and key players from educating patients to training health care providers (HCP) to educational materials from device manufacturers! Meducate Me! meets with the entire spectrum of health education stakeholders to improve treatment success through better education, training, tools, and support of all players at all levels. Meducate Me! is a podcast about patient and medical education and training from a leader in education and training tools.
Joe Blechl talks with Heidi Holden a Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator, along with Brooke Pelczynski an artist and MS patient advocate about their unique perspectives and experiences with injectables. Together they discuss the ideals for self-injection training and the oft-times disappointing reality for patients.
Joe Blechl, Heidi Holden and Brooke Pelczynski continue their discussion about self-injection onboarding and share their insight into what can be done to support and enhance the patient experience. The value of personalization is explored as are the rewards and pitfalls of enlisting caregivers in the patient experience.
When patients are newly diagnosed with a serious condition that requires self-care they often feel overwhelmed and isolated. Gaps in patient education and a lack of careful patient training can make the situation much worse. This episode with patient advocate Brooke Pelczynski, tackles important questions such as, what is the patient experience like? Where there are gaps in education and support? What are patients doing to cope? What can device companies do to improve patients education, support, and care?