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Category : Social Media & Medical Education

ABSTRACT: The role of social media in clinical excellence

BACKGROUND: The provision of excellent patient care is a goal shared by all doctors. The role of social media (SM) in helping medical students and doctors achieve clinical excellence is unknown. Social media may help facilitate the achievement of clinical excellence PURPOSE: This report aimed to identify examples of how SM may be
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MANUSCRIPT: Engaging responsibly with social media: the BJUI Guidelines

Social media has also become very popular amongst healthcare professionals both on a personal and professional basis. The reach and engagement which social media enables, along with the incredible speed with which information is disseminated, clearly creates opportunities for advances in healthcare communication. However, because healthcare professionals also have serious
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ABSTRACT: Informal education of medical doctors on the Internet.

Physicians achieve parts of their knowledge informally on the Internet. In a first study we analyzed the quality of online content of prenatal screening and diagnosis on elements like Wikipedia, Twitter or YouTube. Furthermore, own content was published on blogs, forums and static pages, and visitor's data was measured. The
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ABSTRACT: Educating the patient for health care communication in the age of the world wide web: a qualitative study

PURPOSE: Communication skills teaching in medical education has yet to acknowledge the impact of the Internet on physician-patient communication. The authors present a conceptual model showing the variables influencing how and to what extent physicians and patients discuss Internet-sourced health information as part of the consultation with the purpose of educating
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ABSTRACT: Medical student views on the use of Facebook profile screening by residency admissions committees.

PURPOSE: Previous research has shown that >50% of residency programmes indicate that inappropriate Facebook postings could be grounds for rejecting a student applicant. This study sought to understand medical students' views regarding the impact of their Facebook postings on the residency admissions process. STUDY DESIGN: In 2011-2012, we conducted a national survey of
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MANUSCRIPT: Social media guidelines and best practices: recommendations from the council of residency directors social media task force

Social media has become a staple of everyday life among over one billion people worldwide. A social networking presence has become a hallmark of vibrant and transparent communications. It has quickly become the preferred method of communication and information sharing. It offers the ability for various entities, especially residency programs,
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ABSTRACT: Twitter and the health reforms in the English National Health Service

Social media (for example Facebook and YouTube) uses online and mobile technologies to allow individuals to participate in, comment on and create user-generated content. Twitter is a widely used social media platform that lets users post short publicly available text-based messages called tweets that other users can respond to. Alongside
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ABSTRACT: Ethical issues in using social media for health and health care research

The dramatic growth of social media in recent years has not gone unnoticed in the health sector. Media such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly being used to disseminate information among health professionals and patients but, more recently, are being seen as a source of data for surveillance and research,
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Surgical training 2.0: How contemporary developments in information technology can augment surgical training.

BACKGROUND: The current surgical trainee is faced with reduced training time compared to predecessors as a result of changes in working practices. The past decade has seen marked developments in the information technology sector. This editorial will review how modern technological innovations could augment current surgical training. METHODS: We review the literature and
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Social media: the way forward or a waste of time for physicians?

Social media is everywhere; its use has grown exponentially over recent years. The prevalence of these outlets for communication raises some interesting and potentially risky issues for physicians. On the one hand, some believe that physicians should have a strong social media presence and can benefit greatly from access to
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