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ABSTRACT: Learning and Collective Knowledge Construction With Social Media: A Process-Oriented Perspective.

Social media are increasingly being used for educational purposes. The first part of this article briefly reviews literature that reports on educational applications of social media tools. The second part discusses theories that may provide a basis for analyzing the processes that are relevant for individual learning and collective knowledge

Posted on 25 Aug 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Education Technology, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

MANUSCRIPT: Social media beliefs and usage among family medicine residents and practicing family physicians.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Incorporation of social media (SM) use in medicine is gaining support. The Internet is now a popular medium for people to solicit medical information. Usage of social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, is growing daily and provides physicians with nearly instantaneous access to large populations for both

Posted on 29 Apr 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Manuscript, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

ABSTRACT: Social media for lifelong learning

Learning is ongoing, and can be considered a social activity. In this paper we aim to provide a review of the use of social media for lifelong learning. We start by defining lifelong learning, drawing upon principles of continuous professional development and adult learning theory. We searched Embase and MEDLINE

Posted on 29 Apr 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Education Technology, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

ABSTRACT: Social media, medicine and the modern journal club

Medical media is changing along with the rest of the media landscape. One of the more interesting ways that medical media is evolving is the increased role of social media in medical media's creation, curation and distribution. Twitter, a microblogging site, has become a central hub for finding, vetting, and

Posted on 29 Apr 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Education Technology, Medical Education, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

ABSTRACT: Globalization of Continuing Professional Development by Journal Clubs via Microblogging: A Systematic Review. – PubMed – NCBI

BACKGROUND: Journal clubs are an essential tool in promoting clinical evidence-based medical education to all medical and allied health professionals. Twitter represents a public, microblogging forum that can facilitate traditional journal club requirements, while also reaching a global audience, and participation for discussion with study authors and colleagues. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the

Posted on 29 Apr 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Education Technology, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

ABSTRACT: Social media and dentistry: some reflections on e-professionalism.

The proliferation of digital technology is impacting on the training and development of healthcare professionals. Research on the online behaviour of medical and pharmacy students indicates that social media poses a number of risks to the professional practice of healthcare professionals. General Dental Council guidelines on the use of social

Posted on 29 Apr 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Education Technology, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

MANUSCRIPT: Impact of organizations on healthcare-associated infections.

Resolving the challenges presented by healthcare-associated infections requires a 'whole healthcare economy' perspective encompassing the interactions between biological, therapeutic, and structural factors. The importance and influence of organizational characteristics is receiving increasing attention. This article reviews some keys features that can facilitate the success of patient safety initiatives related to

Posted on 5 Mar 2015
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Learning Models & Theory, Manuscript, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

ABSTRACT: Motivational interviewing workshop in a virtual world: learning as avatars

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Limited research has been done to understand outcomes of continuing medical education offered in three-dimensional, immersive virtual worlds. We studied a case of a virtual world workshop on motivational interviewing (MI) applied to smoking cessation counseling and its educational impact. METHODS: To facilitate content development and evaluation, we specified desired

Posted on 21 Jan 2015
By Collated Resource
In Abstract, Education Technology, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

RESOURCE: Which academic research caught the public imagination in 2014?

At Altmetric, we track who's saying what about academic papers. Here, we take a look back at 2014, with a review of the 100 papers that received the most attention online - and the conversations that happened around them. You can find out more about how we collect data and put

Posted on 9 Dec 2014
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In #hcsmRnD, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

AIM: Social media (#SoMe) has changed the face of modern medicine. Our purpose was to asses the potential interest of Twitter in the field of urology. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A systematic review of the literature has been performed using PubMed without timeline restriction with the following keywords (MeSH): social media; Web 2.0; Twitter;

Posted on 9 Dec 2014
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Abstract, Medical Education, Resources, Social Media & Medical Education

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