Medicine Today Internal Medicine Webcast Series

Medicine Today
Internal Medicine Webcast Series

Social Media and Lifelong Learning

 

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Release Date:  November 16, 2011
Expiration Date:  November 16, 2013

 

How to Obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

  1. Watch the webcast.
  2. Complete the posttest (each question must be answered correctly).
  3. Login to your account.
  4. Complete the credit and evaluation form.
  5. Print your personalized CME certificate.

Technical Requirements

  

Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour

Description

The Medicine Today, Internal Medicine Webcast Series features on-demand CME webcasts. Each webcast consists of an hour-long video presentation and related questions following the video.

This lecture discusses the use of social media tools for lifelong learning by physicians and medical professionals.

Learning Objectives

  1. Review the difference between formal and informal learning.
  2. Recognize the need for lifelong learning.
  3. Summarize common theories of learning and knowledge.
  4. Review examples of educational uses of social media tools like Blogs and Twitter.

Target Audience

This activity is directed to physicians, general internists, family practitioners and subspecialists as well as all other medical professionals.

Accreditation

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Activity Director

William D. Carey, MD
Director, Center for Continuing Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Faculty

Neil Mehta, MD
Associate Professor
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Medicine Institute, Department of Internal Medicine
Information Technology Division
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Disclosures

In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their contribution, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

William D. Carey, MD
Neil Mehta, MD

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education,
the Medicine Institute and the Department of Internal Medicine.

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