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Challenging racial bias and medical myth-busting on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram with Joel Bervell
American Medical Association (AMA)
Feb 16, 2023
- Joel Bervell, a social media educator and fourth-year medical student in Baltimore, shares how he is using his social media platform to address health disparities, racial bias and misinformation in health care. Joel is the former AMA medical student digital fellow. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.
00:00 AMA Update
00:51 Becoming a social media "medical myth-buster"
2:48 Where do you get your content ideas?
04:10 How did you build your social media following?
05:09 Followers like Jordan Sparks and Jesse Williams from Grey's Anatomy
05:31 Working with the WHO, White House and the VA hospital system
06:52 Trip to Ghana, West Africa
08:38 First Black medical student at Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
09:10 Thought of going into tech, encouraged to continue in medicine by Howard U. physicians
11:14 Why do you want to be a doctor?
12:47 Social media advice for physicians
12:53 Follow Joel at @joelbervell on #Twitter #TikTok and #Instagram
@How Sway? @A.V. @monsterpreneur
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Shout out to the young man doing important work.
