View Webcast Education on Healthcare Literacy

View Webcast Education on Healthcare Literacy by watching our latest installment of our on-line education series, MedNet21. Ask yourself, are you a great communicator? It doesn’t matter what the name of the university is on your medical diploma or the name of the hospital on your residency certificate or how good of a doctor you really are, if you can’t communicate with your patients, then none of that really matters.  For this webcast, we’re going to take a close look at communication and give you the tools you need in order to be sure that you can communicate effectively with all of the patients in your practice. On this webcast, joining our moderator Dr. Jim Allen, we have Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Dr. Lorraine Wallace.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: DEPICT health literacy skills of American adults and DESCRIBE the strong link between health literacy skills and health-related outcomes.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Whether physicians are effective communicators
• Computer use and health literacy
• Health literacy and the affordable care act
• Communication effectiveness of different healthcare providers
• Health literacy outside of the United States

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Turning Off Pop-up Blocker to View Webcasts

Turning off pop-up blocker to view webcasts is extremely important, if you’d like to view our MedNet21 CME webcast. This is also required for viewers watching on mobile devices, tablets and computers. This blog write-up will guide you through the process of turning off your pop-up blocker to view our webcast.  Let’s start first with how to do this on iOS devices.

Turning off Pop-up Blocker on iOS devices

On the iPhone or iPad, click on the Settings button and navigate to the Safari Settings and scroll until you see Block Pop-ups.  If it’s on, turn off Block Pop-ups by sliding the on button to off.

It should look similar to the image above when Block Pop-ups is off.

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Exit the Safari browser and in the Safari Settings choose Clear History.  Restart your browser.

Now go to the MedNet21 webcast page of the webcast you would like to view and click on the View Webcast on Demand button.  A dialog window should appear. When it does click the Allow button.

Once you click the Allow button you will directed to the webcast.

If the webcast does not automatically start click the Play button in the video window to the left.

Once you click the Play button the webcast should start similar to what’s displayed above.

Turning off Pop-up Blocker in Firefox

If you need to turn off Pop-up Blocker in Firefox here are the steps.  Navigate to the Tool Pull-down menu in Firefox and then select Options from the list.

On the next screen, click on the Content tab and uncheck the Block pop-windows checkbox.  Once you disable the Block pop-windows checkbox, exit the Firefox browser to close the application.  Restart your browser.  Next, navigate to the webcast page and follow the steps above to view the webcast.

Turning off Pop-up Blocker in Firefox

If you need to turn off Pop-up Blocker in Internet Explorer here are the steps.  Navigate to the Tools Pull-down menu and then choose Pop-up Blocker and select Turn Off Pop-up Blocker from the Contextual menu.  If there is not a Contextual menu that displays Turn off Pop-up Blocker, then that means Pop-up blocker is not turned on.

Once you disable Pop-up Blocker, exit the Internet Explorer browser to close the application.  Restart your browser.  Next, navigate to the webcast page and follow the steps above to view the webcast.