Medical Journalism: Need of the Hour - Ft: Dr Prem Aggarwal (Chairman, Medical Dialogues), Dr Nandita Mohan (Head, MDTV Division, Medical Dialogues) - Video
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Overview
This video focuses on a recent article published in the Journal Of Health and Allied Sciences published by Scientific Scholar.
In the current digital era, medical journalism plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between scientific advancements and public understanding. It keeps the medical fraternity informed about the latest developments, enabling healthcare professionals (HCPs) to make informed clinical and shared decision-making choices aligned with current research findings and real-world practice patterns. With the dissemination of health information through social media, online platforms, and digital news outlets, the prevalence of misinformation and health myths has increased rapidly. The spread of medical misinformation has a profound impact on public health, underscoring the vital role of medical journalists. There is a need for accurate, reliable, and accessible health information to be disseminated with assistance from medical journalists.
In todays discussion, we are joined by Dr Sunny Duttagupta, Director of Publishing at Scientific Scholar who interviews Dr Prem Aggarwal, Chairman of Medical Dialogues who also is the co-author of this research. Alongside him, is Dr Nandita Mohan, Head of the MDTV division of Medical Dialogues.
Together they discuss on the how the team ventured into medical journalism and how medical dialogues got established enlightening on the key goals behind it. Dr Prem emphasizes on what makes Medical Dialogues a unique entity regarding medical journalism.
While Dr. Nandita talks about how members of medical dialogues feature as authors themselves in top-rated, indexed open access journal on such a sensitive topic. and how it fees for MDTV for this achievement and motivation.
Laslty, Dr Prem shares his advice for young professionals who wish to pursue medical journalism as a career option and how has been his experience in collaborating with Scientific Scholar for dissemination of quality clinical research content
Speakers
Dr. Nandita Mohan is a practicing pediatric dentist with more than 5 years of clinical work experience. Along with this, she is equally interested in keeping herself up to date about the latest developments in the field of medicine and dentistry which is the driving force for her to be in association with Medical Dialogues. She also has her name attached with many publications; both national and international. She has pursued her BDS from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore and later went to enter her dream specialty (MDS) in the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry from Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences. Through all the years of experience, her core interest in learning something new has never stopped. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751