Do you need distance learning courses that will help your medical students become the physicians we need for the future? Try out this curriculum created to teach medical student to embrace their physician voice and guide the general public through the COVID19 pandemic.

Course Description:

This 4-week course is designed to engage medical students in understanding the COVID-19 epidemic, track its progression using reliable sources and empower them to engage with the community via social media. They will gain skills in critical appraisal of information and the acquisition of high quality data from reliable sources. Students will learn best practices in health communication with a general audience as well as evaluate the use of social media by other professionals. Students will build a social media profile where they will assess health news and provide the broader community with timely and accurate information about COVID-19 that directly relates to health information needs in the community.

Course Objectives: By the end of this rotation students will be able to:

• Describe previous pandemics, including lessons learned about effective and ineffective responses

• Assess the quality of media reporting about COVID-19

• Apply professional fact-checkers’ techniques to assess the credibility of media

• Critically assess medical and scientific literature

• Translate scientific literature for a lay audience

• Utilize social media to connect people with accurate information about COVID-19

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