They have to follow health information guidelines.
YouTube will verify their licenses. Videos of licensed healthcare professionals can also appear on health content shelves.Licensed healthcare professionals on YouTube can now apply to get panels added to their videos that mark them as reliable health information sources, the company. They’ll also be able to have videos added to health content shelves, which compile information on specific medical conditions.
Licensed doctors, nurses, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and social workers are eligible for the feature. YouTube will verify applicants’ licenses. They’ll have to agree to follow the best practices for health information sharing created by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, the National Academy of Medicine, and the World Health Organization — which says information should be science-based, objective, transparent, and equitable.
Previously, only organizations like public health departments and hospitals were able to access these features. “This new step will allow us to expand to include high quality information from a wider group of healthcare channels,” Garth Graham, global head of healthcare and public health partnerships at YouTube, said in a