PALTC23 Conference Recordings FR29 Managing Medical Misinformation: How to Address this Information Mess!

Managing Medical Misinformation: How to Address this Information Mess!

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.

Leslie Eber, MD, CMD

Leslie Eber, MD, CMD, is board-certified in internal medicine, and is a certified Medical Director. She divides her time between clinical practice, medical directorship, and research. She enjoys her practice at Rocky Mountain Senior Care. She has provided medical directorship for both long-term care facilities and hospice, and is the Medical Director of Orchard Park Health Care Center in Greenwood Village, Colorado. She is the co-investigator for three CCTSI Community Engagement Grants. She is the chair of the Colorado Dementia Partnership and is on the National Board of AMDA-The Society PALTC Medicine.

Sing T. Palat, MD, CMD

Sing T. Palat, MD, CMD, is a medical director for Optum Senior Community Care. She works with advance practice clinicians in long-term care settings and precepts medical students, residents and fellows. Dr. Palat is the President of the Colorado chapter of AMDA and a House of Delegates Representative to the AMDA Board.

Erin A. O’Brien, MA, RN

Erin O’Brien, MA, RN, is the Director of Clinical Affairs and Education for the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association, where she oversees the development of the Association's clinical resources and educational programs and is the staff liaison for the clinical affairs and education committees. Prior to her work at PALTmed, she was a research intervention nurse for the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she spent a decade educating and learning from frontline staff and leadership in nursing homes and assisted living communities throughout Maryland. Most of her intervention work has involved function focused care and managing BPSD.

  • 1.00 CME
  • 1.00 CMD Management
  • 1.00 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.00 management hour(s) toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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