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10/17/2023 - Medical Grand Rounds: How a TED Talk Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Lives from COVID-19

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 0.75

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

    • Illustrate how good communication skills are essential when scientists communicate information to policy makers.
    • Examine the effect of good communication on early adoption of science-based interventions in a pandemic
    • Estimate the deaths averted by timely intervention in convincing policy makers in the Philippines to lock down early.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading:
  1. Salvana EM. The road to COVID-19 endemicity. Philippine Star. July 27, 2022. https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/825727-road-to-covid-19-endemicity?page=3
  2. Salvana EM. How my TED training helped me save Filipinos from COVID-19. Manila Bulletin. April 26, 2022. https://mb.com.ph/2022/04/26/how-my-ted-training-helped-me-save-filipinos-from-covid/
  3. Salvana EM. Fake news – CoV: viral misinformation in the time of an epidemic. Philippine Science Letters. 2020:1;25-27. https://scienggj.org/2020/PSL%202020-PopSci-34.pdf
  4. Salvana EM. The dangerous evolution of HIV. TED Talks. Published August 2017 https://www.ted.com/talks/edsel_salvana_the_dangerous_evolution_of_hiv/transcript?language=en


In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Edsel Maurice T. Salvana, MD, DTM&H, FPCP, FIDSA — Director and Professor, National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila
Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section, Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines College of Medicine
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.