Debunking Fake News

Debunking Fake News

This presentation will offer a model for evaluating health-related social media content for veracity, offer case studies of examples of using the model to debunk fake news, and identify terms such as misinformation and disinformation.

Session Information 

Format: Internet live 
Date: March 7, 2023 
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm ET

Format: Internet, self-paced
Release Date: March 10, 2023
Expiration Date: January 1, 2025

After the expiration date, this session will no longer be accessible for viewing or downloading.
CE Credit/Contact Hours must be requested by the expiration date.

Cost:
FREE

Speaker(s)

Joel Breakstone, Ph.D
Director, Stanford History Education Group 

Jevin West, PhD
Associate Professor, Co-founder, Center for an Informed Public, Information School, University of Washington

Intended Audience

• Administrator 
• Advanced Practice Clinician
• Dietitian/Nutritionist
• Health Educator
• Health Information Management Professional 
• Mental Health Professional
• Nurse
• Pharmacist
• Physician, Physician Assistant
• Psychiatrist 
• Student

Learning Objectives

After this session, participants should be able to: 

1. Define lateral reading and how it is used to evaluate health-related social media content.
2. Describe at least two case studies of fake health-related news and how it was debunked.
3. Explain at least one strategy to think critically about health-related data and models that constitute evidence in the social and natural sciences.

Program Planning Committee 

Keith Anderson, PhD, FACHA
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (Retired)

Anita Barkin, DrPH, MSN, NP-C
Independent Contractor with ACHA

Giang Nguyen, MD, MPH
Harvard University

Claudia Trevor-Wright, JD, MCHES
American College Health Association

Sarah Van Orman, MD, MMM
University of Southern California

Heather Zesiger, PhD, MCHES
American College Health Association

For more information about this session or its speaker(s), contact education@acha.org.

Credit/Contact Hours and Disclosures

Types of Credit/Contact Hours Available

Refer to the Continuing Education Key.

• CME: 1.0 
• CNE: 1.0
• CHES: 1.0

Deadlines

Claim your credit/contact hours or certificate on each session's Contents tab by the deadline.

If you attended the session LIVE: Credit/Contact Hours must be requested by March 21, 2023

If you viewed the session as a RECORDING: Credit/Contact Hours must be requested by January 1, 2025. 

Relevant Financial Relationships

None of the presenters or planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Successful Completion to Obtain Credit/Contact Hours (or certificate of attendance)

Criteria for successful completion is commensurate with participation and passing of a post-test with a minimum of an 80%.

Select the "Contents" tab above (registered users only) for access to the following components. It is estimated that it will require 60 minutes to view the webinar and complete the post-test. Credit/Contact Hours must be requested by the program expiration date (see "Overview" tab above).

Step 1:  View/Attend the session in its entirety.

Step 2:  Complete the mandatory Attestation, Evaluation Survey, and Post-test (passing score of 80%) for CE Credit/Contact Hours. See below for post-test passing requirements.

Step 3:  Select the certificate for the type of credit/contact hour you are requesting. Select "Certificate of Attendance" if no credit/contact hour is being requested. 

Continuing Education Statements 

Continuing Education 

The American College Health Association (ACHA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ACHA designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

   CNE     This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Sponsored by ACHA, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designed for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category 1 continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level contact hours available are 0. There are 0 Continuing Competency credits available. 

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Post-test Policy
It is the policy of the American College Health Association that when a post-test is required upon completion of a continuing education activity, participants must receive a passing grade of 80%. If participants receive a grade lower than 80%, they will be given the opportunity to re-take the post-test one time. If they receive 80% or higher the second time, they will be awarded continuing education credits/contact hours for the activity. We encourage participants to complete the post-test immediately after viewing the program.

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