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Previewing Austin #AF4Q 2013 Meeting

Later this week in Austin, I'll be moderating a superstar panel on the topic of Social Media and the Power of Influence. This will be at the Annual Meeting of Aligning Forces For Quality which is associated with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. I have never heard of this group until now, and I'm really looking forward to meeting new people and talking about how we can make this health care system better.

The panel is "Breakout Session 1" (of course) and it is entitled "Influence Through Social Media: Trust, Share, Engage" The description of the panel on the website is as follows: 

  • Social Media is an undeniable force in health care decision-making, advocacy, and communication. Increasingly, it is a way of turbo-boosting your influence in the field and in the conversation, making connections you otherwise could not have made and building a following for your efforts. It is a natural source of collective influence and collaboration.
  • The place to connect: 65 percent of online adults use social networking sites
  • Deeper engagement: Nearly 90 percent of those ages 18-24 would engage in health activities or trust information found via social media
  • Opportunity to personalize encounters and gather data: One out of three consumers said they would be comfortable having their social media monitored if that data could help them identify ways to improve their care or better coordinate their care
  • New expectations: More than 75 percent of consumers expect health care entities to respond within a day or less to social media appointment requests, and nearly half expect a response within a few hours
  • How can you tap into this vein of influence? And how do you quantify its impact? Come find out what the landscape looks like and how you can maximize your impact through social media
  • The panelists follow below...

 

Ed Bennett

 

Susana Shephard

 

 

Alicia Staley

  • CEO of Akari Health which is a start-up patient engagement company
  • Three time cancer survivor
  • Contributor to Breast Cancer Social Media (#BCSM) Community
  • Slides from presentation

I talked about this Austin meeting along with this panel on my most recent podcast which  was Episode 317 of the Mike Sevilla Radio Program. In the video above, you'll see the segment of the podcast where I talk about this upcoming panel. You can listen to the entire audio podcast in the player above, or you can download the episode here and listen anytime.

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Interviewed on DSMA Live

Last month, I had the honor of being interviewed on a podcast from the "Diabetes Community Advocacy Foundation" on their program "DSMA Live." My thanks to Cherise Shockley who is the founder of DSMA and Chair of the Foundation.

We chatted about a number of topics including Family Medicine, Social Media, and Diabetes. I encourage you to check out their weekly chat on twitter on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern Time using the #DSMA hashtag. 

In addition, they have a weekly podcast every Thursday at 9pm Eastern Time. You can check out the entire audio podcast in the player below. There is a little segment of the show in the video above. Enjoy! 

Podcast Episode 316

After a month off from podcasting, I recorded yesterday Episode 316 of the Mike Sevilla Radio Program. The video above shows the opening moments of the show. And, there definitely was a lot of talk about and to catch up on. You can also listen to the entire audio podcast in the player below. Or, you can download the episode here, and listen anytime...

Topic One: AAFP 2013 San Diego (At 6:18 in podcast)

The annual meeting of the American Academy of Family Physicians took place in late September in San Diego. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend this year, but I followed the meeting on twitter. Even though I wasn't there, following the twitter feed still made me feel energized and reinforced my choice for Family Medicine as my specialty.

The audio clip I shared in this section was the first words of AAFP President Dr. Reid Blackwelder right after he was sworn in as the AAFP President. The audio clip starts in the podcast at 7:59. You can also see the video clip here on the AAFP website. 

Topic Two: Direct Primary Care National Summit (At 23:04 in podcast)

In St Louis, on October 11-12, 2013, the Direct Primary Care National Summit took place. The principal sponsor for this event was the Family Medicine Education Consortium and Direct Primary Care Coalition. You can check out the schedule here. 

The first audio clip shared in this segment was a portion of an interview of Dr. Erika Bliss from Qliance from The Dr Synonymous Show. The entire 40 minute interview can be found in the player below...

The 2nd audio clip in this segment is from the video below which are the closing thoughts from the Summit. In this clip, Dr. Bliss said. "If Primary Care providers of all stripes cannot step up right now, and own the health care system and change it on behalf of our patients and ourselves, we should just go home." 

Topic Three: The Primary Care Project (At 48:10 in podcast)

In this brief segment of the show, I state why I signed The Primary Care Project Pledge from our friends at Primary Care Progress. You can see this segment in the video below

Topic Four: CFHA 2013 (At 53:13 in podcast)

Earlier this month, I attended the annual meeting of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association in Denver. The audio clips I shared in this segment were from four previous blog posts entitled "Pecha Kucha," "What are your expectations?," "Questions from #CFHA13," "Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Mtg."

Topic Five: Flashback Segment (At 1:13:07 in podcast)

It's been fun sharing interviews from past shows. In this episode, I shared a small piece of an interview from October 2008 (can't believe it's been five years already) with our pal Carrie on Podcast episode 53.  

Carrie has been a long time friend of me and a friend of the show. She is a nurse practitioner in the Northeastern United States. We talked about her chronic pain diagnosis and her love of music. In this brief clip, I shared a few songs that she played on the piano. You can check out the entire 90 minute interview from 2008 in the player below.... 

What a fun show to put together and share with all of you! Apologies for not having a podcast in over a month. Hopefully, I'll have more time to podcast more. I also invite you to subscribe to the iTunes feed here. You can also subscribe to this blog right here. I also invite you to check me out on twitter, youtube, facebook, and linked-in as well. Enjoy!

Medical Student Social Media Blackout?

I was reviewing the awesome Family Medicine Revolution (#FMRevolution) twitter feed this evening when I saw the above tweet from a fourth year medical student: "I was advised a social media blackout for interview season. Yesterday, I made this feed public. I feel I've done the right thing."

Hmm. Interesting. So, I am not a residency recruiter person, but I play one on the internet. I found that this person has a blog called "Learning Medspeak" and this person is going to be applying to Family Medicine residencies from this blog post:

I will be applying to family medicine residencies that include training in family planning and a strong academic component. In the long run I'm hopeful that I will do all the things I care about: be a good full-spectrum primary care doctor for my patients and a proponent of this work via research or public health or advocacy.

Well, that's cool. On inspection of this person's twitter feed, I find the following three tweets...

Hm. Interesting. I wondering who advised this person about doing a "social media blackout for interview season." If you're hiring someone, on the admissions committee for college or medical school, or if you're on a residency recruitment committee, what would you think if you saw this information?

Here are some other questions that have come to mind: Did my curiosity draw me into a trap? Is this person really real? Is this a hoax? Would an actual medical student write all of this? Hm. Interesting....

Addendum: What I love about social media is the interaction that happens. In addition to the comments below, I'll share some of the feedback tweets like the ones below...

#CFHA13: Pecha Kucha

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Last night in Denver, was one of the best opening sessions that that Collaborative Family Healthcare Association annual meetings has even seen (in my humble opinion lol). The Pecha Kucha presentation style requires 20 slides at 20 seconds each in which the slides advance automatically.

What follows below are the presentations focused on the presenter. I apologize for not having the accompanying slides as a part of this blog post. I'll try to work with the meeting organizers to also get the corresponding slides with the presentations. But, what I thought was the best part of these talks are the people themselves. 

Each one of these presenters never prepared a talk like this before, and they worked very hard not only before this meeting, but also hours before show time during the rehearsal sessions in which some of these talks were sharpened to what you see below. See more of my videos at MikeSevilla.TV Enjoy... 

Direct Primary Care National Summit

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I have talked about Direct Primary Care on this blog and on the podcast in the past. For those who are not familiar, Direct Primary Care are services offered directly to the patient, often without insurance administration. The patient pays fixed monthly fees and also sometimes visit fees as well. The challenge in describing this concept is that there is no official definition of Direct Primary Care. Hopefully, this meeting will take steps toward that. 

As far as I know, there has never been a national meeting about Direct Primary Care - that is until now. This meeting is organized by our friends at the Family Medicine Education Consortium and starts today in St Louis.

The full schedule is here and you can follow on twitter using the hashtag #DPCSummit. I'll only be able to catch part of the summit, but I hope to learn more about Direct Primary Care and its impact on American Healthcare.

Collaborative Family Healthcare Assoc Mtg

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The annual meeting of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association begins today in Denver. I've only learned of this group a few months ago. According to their website, here is how they describe the organization: 

CFHA promotes a comprehensive and cost-effective model of healthcare delivery that integrates mind and body, individual and family, patients, providers, and communities. 

I have the honor of being The Moderator for the opening session tonight. First for this meeting, they will be having presentations in the style called "Pecha Kucha" in which an big idea is presented only with 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide.  You can read more here, but here are the titles of the presentations

  • Sowing and Harvesting the Literature of Collaborative Family Healthcare
  • Righting Wrongs and Reforming Rights
  • Health in Hope: Finding the Soul of Primary Care
  • When We Look Away: Primary Care and Serious Mental Illness
  • Clinician as Patient: The Gift of Illness
  • Cold Spotting: Linking Primary Care and Public Health to Create Communities of Solution

The meeting is also taking its first steps in social media. You can follow the meeting via the #CFHA13 hashtag on twitter. There has been a social media team put together to try to interview attendees following sessions, and there is even a tweet up scheduled tonight following the opening session.  Finally, in a fun way, I recorded the videos below to share my journey to the meeting. Maybe I'll be done more of this during the meeting as well...

 

AAFP Global Health Workshop

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The Family Medicine Global Health Workshop is going on over the next couple of days in Baltimore. This meeting is organized by our friends at the American Academy of Family Physicians.

According to their website, you'll learn the following at the meeting: 

  • How to get started in global health
  • Strengthen your capacity to contribute to global health programs
  • Prepare to serve as family medicine consultants and organize and conduct global health consultation
  • Broaden your clinical knowledge about diseases rarely encountered in your home country
  • Evaluate the practical management of chronic diseases in resource-contrainted settings
  • Strengthen preparation of students, residents, and physicians for global health field work
  • Promote family medicine faculty development

You can also follow the meeting using the #AAFPGlobal hashtag on twitter. I imagine that AAFP will also group tweets for your review later as well. What follows below are some initial tweets from day one...