Episode 52: Hot Topics Mini-Series - Social Media: The future of medical knowledge dissemination?

Stanford Medcast

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Michael Gisondi, Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University who is a medical education researcher and an expert in the application of social media in medical education. Dr. Gisondi will share insights about the pros and cons of social media. We will discuss how digital and social media is the new wave of online learning and learn the five steps to debunk social media misinformation.

To learn more, please see these resources:

• Pendergrast, T. R., Jain, S., Trueger, N. S., Gottlieb, M., Woitowich, N. C., & Arora, V. M. (2021). Prevalence of Personal Attacks and Sexual Harassment of Physicians on Social Media. JAMA internal medicine, 181(4), 550–552. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7235
• Gisondi, M. A., Barber, R., Faust, J. S., Raja, A., Strehlow, M. C., Westafer, L. M., & Gottlieb, M. (2022). A Deadly Infodemic: Social Media and the Power of COVID-19 Misinformation. Journal of medical Internet research, 24(2), e35552. https://doi.org/10.2196/35552
• http://www.momthisishowtwitterworks.com/

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