🚨New paper out in @jhealthcomm.bsky.social! 🚨 We developed and pilot-tested an edutainment-based curriculum to help future healthcare providers address health misinformation using motivational interviewing (MI). A 🧵

Patients increasingly bring infectious disease misinformation into clinical encounters, but many health trainees feel unprepared to respond. So, we piloted an approach using medical drama clips (ER, Chicago Med), didactic on misinformation + MI, and small-group script rewriting using MI principles.

The sessions were part of a clinical encounters course for physician assistant (PA) students. We saw significant improvements in: ✔️ Ability to identify misinformation ✔️ Comfort using MI with patients expressing misinformation

Qualitative findings stood out: nearly half of participants said they would engage patients with more empathy, which is a core tenant of MI. Edutainment works because stories create emotional engagement, realism, and space to practice difficult conversations.