In a first for the medical profession, doctors seeking to keep their licenses and expertise up to date can complete the credits they need through one of the most popular social media platforms on the planet.
ouTube and Harvard Medical School have unveiled a collaboration that will enable doctors to earn continuing medical education credits by watching clips on the popular video platform.
toward those requirements. Harvard partnered with the Google-owned streamer after seeing hundreds of thousands of clinicians across the globe tuning into content it had shared online during the pandemic, according to longtime dean of external education David Roberts.. The school may be more than two centuries old, he acknowledged, but he said online learning through video is “an opportunity to pull medical education, or continuing medical education, into the 21st century.
Even as YouTube and its rivals have been challenged—especially during the pandemic—to tamp down on misinformation about public health and conspiracies about vaccines, YouTube has been at the fore of finding ways to integrate social media with health care. At the height of the crisis, the video giant brought on a practicing cardiologist and former senior health official in the Bush and Obama administrations, Dr. Garth Graham, to oversee its health arm.
"There are components of medicine that are amenable to being in-person, and there are components of education that can easily be advanced by our ability to bring information to people in a convenient way,” he said. But “it's not just convenience—it's also part of tackling this challenge of clinician burnout. We have to be able to make things easier for clinicians.
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