Leadership & Professional Development

(FR29) Managing Medical Misinformation: How to Address this Information Mess!

Friday, March 10, 2023

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM ET

Room: 122/123

CME: (1) MOC: (1) CMD Management: (1) Nursing Contact Hours: (1) AAFP: (1)

Medical directors and providers face a foe that has relentlessly spread before and since the COVID-19 pandemic: misinformation. Understanding how to effectively debunk false medical information empowers post-acute, long-term care (PALTC) providers to address this misinformation mess. Knowing how to “immunize” the community by sharing how to identify inaccurate information helps prevent the spread of misinformation. In this session, myths and falsehoods brought up in PALTC are approached with systematic strategies from the literature that providers and medical directors may use to manage and mitigate the spread of misinformation. “Do’s and Don’ts” of debunking misinformation in the real world will be demonstrated through role-play and Q&A.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

List common causes for the propagation of healthcare misinformation
Demonstrate evidence-based strategies for debunking misinformation
Identify ways in which confronting healthcare misinformation overlaps with the roles of PALTC medical directors and providers

Session Chair/Speaker(s)

Sing T. Palat, MD, CMD (she/her/hers)

Medical Director
Golden, Colorado

Slides PDF

Speaker(s)

Leslie Eber, MD, CMD (she/her/hers)

Medical Director, Attending Physician
Englewood, Colorado
Erin O. Vigne, MA, RN

Director of Clinical Affairs
Columbia, Maryland