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Medical professionalism 10 20
The document discusses the evolving role of healthcare professionals in the digital age and the challenges presented by social media. It defines what it means to be a professional and examines both the risks and benefits of social media for medical professionals. While social media allows for greater collaboration and education, it also poses risks to patient privacy, boundaries, and a physician's reputation if not used properly. Guidelines recommend maintaining privacy and appropriate boundaries online, but also suggest social media can be used to enhance care if professionals lead by example. The document argues this represents an evolution in the role of healers, and that social media offers an opportunity to extend knowledge and reconnect with traditions of caring for patients.
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- 1. The Evolving Roleof Healthcare Professionals Matthew Katz, MD October 20, 2011
- 2. Disclosures • Doctor atRadiation Oncology Associates, PA - Practice in MA, NH • Volunteer for - American Society of Radiation Oncology - Massachusetts Medical Society - Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media •Financial disclosures: none - No speakership, consulting, ownership stakes
- 3. Overview • Definition • Challengeof social media • Current guidelines • Redefining professionalism
- 4. What is aprofessional? • Professional: – “conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession” – “participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs” Merriam-Webster.com, accessed 9/19/11
- 5. Social Media are CommunicationTools • Global reach • Easy access • Little technical expertise needed to use • Immediate impact • Dynamic content Wikipedia, http://bit.ly/mZcwaH
- 6. Social Media • Presentsperplexing challenge • Transforming the way we interact • Patients online for healthcare beyond the exam room • Unclear how best to get involved without harm
- 7. What data dowe have on medical professionalism online? • Survey of U.S. medical school deans – 60% of respondents confirmed medical students posted unprofessional online content • Profanity/discriminatory ~50% • Sexually suggestive/intoxication ~40% – Only 38% had social media policy in place • Study of U Florida medical students/residents – 44% had Facebook account – 83% posted personal information, 70% had photos with alcohol Chretien et al, JAMA 2009 Thompson et al, J Gen Intern Med 2008
- 8. What about medicalblogs? Lagu et al, J Gen Intern Med 2008
- 9. Risks of SocialMedia • Reputation – Expertise – Patient satisfaction • Career – Medicolegal • Patient harm – Privacy violation – Damage to doctor-patient relationship • Boundaries • Blurring of personal and professional spheres
- 10. Medicolegal Risks • Disclosureof patient information – Statutory risk – Common law risk • “Friending” patients – Established – Non-established • Surfing social media sites of established patients • Physician as employer: social media risks • Malpractice & risk management Terry Wall, ASTRO Annual Meeting 2011
- 11. Benefits of SocialMedia • Collaboration – Conducting research – Clinical guidelines – Donations for cancer care • Connect with patients, others – Marketing your practice or organization – Enhance therapeutic relationship – Share your research • Education – Patients – Colleagues, CME • Reputation Management
- 12. “Gamers produced anaccurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks” Yahoo!News, 9/18/2011
- 13. AMA Guidelines • Patientprivacy and confidentiality must be maintained in all environments, including online • Monitor own Internet presence to ensure personal and professional information is accurate and appropriate • Maintain appropriate boundaries of the patient-physician relationship in accordance with professional ethical guidelines • Confront medical colleagues that post unprofessional content • Actions online and content posted may negatively affect their reputations among patients and colleagues and can undermine public trust in the medical profession Adopted 11/2010
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- 15. Why Risk GettingInvolved?
- 17. We are publicfigures • UK survey of 953 respondents in general public • Professionalism based upon – clinician – workmanship – citizen • Respondents expected doctors to be: – – – – – confident reliable composed accountable dedicated Chandratilake et al, Clin Med 2010
- 19. Oath of Maimonides “Maythe love for my art actuate me at all times… Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements. “
- 20. Social media canextend our domain • Doctors are healers and teachers • Opportunity to learn • Lead by example • Re-embrace millennia tradition of caring
- 21. We are noton Medicine 2.0
- 22. Evolution of Healers v. Era Example Divine Healer/WKnowledge Scientific ounded Method Dyad 1.0 Prehistoric Shaman + + 2.0 400 B.C. Galen + + + 3.0 18th-19th c. Virchow + + + 4.0 20th c. Osler + + In 2011, v4.0 is a century old
- 23. Medicine in 19thcentury 1846 Ether for anesthesia for H&N surgery 1858 Virchow’s Cellular Pathology 1859 Darwin’s On the Origin of Species 1860s Claude Bernard Experimental medicine 1870s Pasteur Germ theory, anthrax vaccine 1895 Roentgen’s discovery of x-ray 1899 Aspirin
- 24. Flexner Report (1911) •Medical school education – 4 years – Merged into university – Standardized quality • Implications for professionalism – Scientific method and knowledge trump caring – Higher cost of training limits access to upper class – Decreased access to poor, rural, people of color – Marginalized other approaches
- 26. M.D. = MasterDilettante • Talented at absorbing salient information • Integrating practical information and applying it • Free from need for ‘complete’ knowledge – Able to take diverse data, synthesize it • Focus on education,care for patient and caregivers – Values – Understanding = listening to each other
- 27. Evolution of Professionals Professional Origin Example Doctor 5thcent. BC Hippocrates Nurse 1850s Crimean War Epidemiologist/Public Health Physical therapist 1840s London trash 1813 Swedish Gymnastics Paramedic 1860 American Civil War Dietician 18th-19th c. Social worker 1915 Flexner Medical researcher 19th c. Claude Bernard Hospital administrator 1906 AHA
- 28. Social media: with influencecomes responsibility Person/Entity Rationale Advertisers/Marketers Split test = randomized trial Mobile health app developers Influence health decisions Social Networks Ecosphere for interactions Patient advocacy groups Organizational advocates Peers Peers = trusted source of information Patients (all of us) Ultimate judge of quality but biased by experience
- 29. Ethos of MedicalProfessionalism • Traditional – Autonomy – Beneficence – Justice • New – Integrity – Connectedness
- 30. Integrity & Connectedness •Integrity Being ‘whole’ Honesty Transparency of intent Willingness to change • Connectedness Centered on relationships Links professionalism to how we interact De-emphasizes knowledge, expertise Repudiates notion of pure objectivity
- 31. Medicine 5.0 v. Era Example DivineHealer/W Knowledge Scientific ounded Method Dyad 1.0 Prehistoric Shaman + + 2.0 400 B.C. Galen + + + 3.0 18th-19th c. Virchow + + + 4.0 20th Osler + + 5.0 21st ? + + +
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Define professional Social media as challenge – risks and benefits Guidelines
- #7 -- Social media challenges our approach to interactions in healthcare -- Partly because we do not always provide information that patients are looking for, they’re going online to find it -- As professionals, not easy to just jump in when we’re obligated to “first, do no harm”
- #13 Developed in 2008 at U Washington “ fun-for-purpose video game in which gamers…compete to unfold chains of amino acids”
- #16 - Half of 50-64 year olds, ¼ of 65+ ysing social networking sites - 58% of all adults have looked for health information online
- #17 To know how to improve in the social media era, we have to look at where we’ve been
- #21 -- We are healers, not scientists - Our value is in what we do for our patients, not what we can do to them - To learn how to use these tools well, we need to start using them
- #24 - Not the first time medicine has faced challenges - Similar period of rapid change occurred about 150 years ago -- Medical advances during Industrial Revolution and social change -- Flexner Report culminated in defining basis for how we define medical professionalism – MD as scientist -- Focus on what we know and can do, not how much we care -- More objective, less willing to engage