Your Patients Are On Facebook and Twitter, Where Are You? Determining Where Social Media Fit in Your Practice
Compass Points
Premiere Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013This activity offers CE credit for:
- Physicians (CME)
- Other
All other clinicians will receive a Certificate of Attendance stating this activity was certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Credit Expiration Date:
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Note: Credit Is No Longer Available
 | Monique Johnson, MD, CCMEP Medical Program Director CME Outfitters, LLC Bethesda, MD |
 | Ryan D. Madanick, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Director, UNC Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellowship Program Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC |
 | Haley M. Hoffman, BS Strategic Development & Communications Specialist CME Outfitters, LLC Bethesda, MD |
Wonder why you should know about social media from a professional standpoint? The answer starts with the fact that, whether you are pleased about it or not, you do have an Internet presence, often called your “digital footprint.” That is to say that with a simple point and click, patients are probably rating you and posting comments about their degree of satisfaction with the care you have provided to them. So, at the very least, it is important to monitor your Internet presence. There are also professional benefits to being an active user and contributor to social media.
This Compass Points™ article features an annotated transcript and a podcast audio recording of an October 3rd, 2013 interview with Dr. Ryan Madanick, a top authority on the use of social media in the health care space. The interview highlights how social media involvement has become mainstream in both our personal and our professional lives, and why health care professionals need to be informed about social media. The interview also provides insight on the levels and nature of professional engagement in social media and guidance from the AMA Policy on Professionalism in the Use of Social Media.
To educate clinicians on the professional benefits of engaging in social media, as well as on ways of mitigating the risk of social media engagement by following guidelines on its professional use from the American Medical Association (AMA).
At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:
- Monitor their own Internet presence to ascertain comments about them and their clinical practices on common social media sites.
- Describe the key recommendations in the American Medical Association Policy on Professionalism in the Use of Social Media.
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Physicians and other health care professionals who provide direct patient care.
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Dr. Johnson has no disclosures to report.
Dr. Madanick has no disclosures to report.
Ms. Hoffman has no disclosures to report.
Tony Graham, MD, (peer/content reviewer) has no disclosures to report.
Joy Bartnett Leffler, MLA, NASW, CSE (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
Sandra Haas Binford, MAEd (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
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