The Use of Social Media for Medical Education Within Urology: a Journey Still in Progress

UNSTRUCTURED This research study was designed to understand physician awareness and engagement with social media (sometimes referred to as #SoMe) within the digital landscape of healthcare delivery. An audience-response survey focused on social media “Social media in Healthcare: Physician Survey”, was administered during the “A Systematic Approach to Medically Unexplained Symptoms” continuing medical education conference. The Conference took place between August 22, 2019 and August 24, 2019. Data was collected on August 23, 2019. A range of 103 (59.5%) to 112 (64.7%) of the total 173 attendees participated in this cross-sectional audience-response survey, depending on the questions answered. Most responders were between the ages of 35 and 65 years (79.6%) and female (60.2%). A majority of responders were aware of social media terminology (88.7%), and many had used it personally (46.7%), but only 12% knew how to use social media to search medical topics, 18% used it to network professionally and most (68.9%) had a distrust of social media when it came to the protection of their privacy or their patients’ privacy. Overall, about 29.6% indicated an interest in future continued medical education focused on social media (and 27.4% were neutral). Awareness of social media’s role in healthcare has increased among physicians in practice, however their participation and knowledge of opportunities remains limited. Distance from academic institutions and concerns about privacy play the largest roles in the aversion towards professional use of social media.

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Social media in critical care: Fad or a new standard in medical education? An analysis of international critical care conferences between 2014 and 2017

Journal of the Intensive Care Society ◽

10.1177/1751143719846432 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 341-346 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Adrian Wong ◽

Ifor Capel ◽

Manu Malbrain

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Medical Education ◽

Critical Care ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Professional Societies ◽

Considerable Debate ◽

Twitter Account ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Care Conference

Medical conference organisers have increasingly used social media to improve interaction and learning amongst healthcare professionals. Despite the increasing use of Twitter at critical care conferences, there remains considerable debate as to its impact and ability to generate meaningful discussions beyond the duration of the conference itself. We aim to analyse the trend in Twitter use at international critical care conferences between 2014 and 2017. Fifteen major, international critical care conferences were identified spanning 2014–2017. They represented the annual congresses of the leading critical care professional societies including the first critical care conference to incorporate social media, Social Media and Critical Care. There has been an increased utilisation of social media at all the conferences analysed. This is reflected both in the number of users and the number of tweets. Tweets from the official conference twitter account contribute only a small proportion to the overall number with the exception of the International Fluid Academy. The potential benefits of social media have resulted in a sustained increased in its use at critical care conference between 2014 and 2017. Our analysis provides a better understanding on the use of social media at critical care conference. Further studies are needed to ascertain if this increase in use translates to enhance learning and patient care amongst colleagues.

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Use of Social Media by the Undergraduate Medical Students: Students’ Perception in Selected Medical Colleges of Bangladesh

Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education ◽

10.3329/bjme.v9i2.38997 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 11-15

Author(s):

Husneara Begum ◽

AKM Asaduzzaman ◽

Humayun Kabir Talukder ◽

Tahmina Nargis ◽

Kazi Khairul Alam ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Medical Education ◽

Medical Students ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Undergraduate Medical Students ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Medical Colleges

Introduction: This descriptive type of cross sectional study was carried out to explore the extent of use of social media by the undergraduate medical students and its consequences in medical education. This study was carried out in nine (Four public and five private) medical colleges all over Bangladesh during a period from July 2016-2017.Objective: The study revealed that the use of social media by the undergraduate medical students and its effect on their lifestyle and medical education.Methodology: Sample size was 673 medical students. Data was collected by self-administered semi-structured questionnaire from 673 respondents. Convenience sampling technique was adopted for data collection. For each variable frequency and percentages was calculated. There was also a part of in-depth interview for the respondents on the perception of use of Social media.Results: Among the students 54.68% females & 45.34% males, the mean age of the respondents was 20.76 years. Around 42.6% respondents were using Social media for4-6 years. The main use of social media by the respondents was Facebook 70.1%, main devices was mobile phone 96.8%. The main purpose of using the Social media for non-academic purposes such as, communicate with others26.0%, for chatting 51.3%. Maxium duration > 4 times / day up to >6 hours. Academic purpose 44.7% users using the SM every day. Six hundred forty six respondents agreed for negative effect of social media. 52.2% agreed that they used Social media during lecture class.Conclusion: Most students had positive thoughts towards using social media. Students were using social media for almost nonprofessional reason. So, there is need to build up widespread awareness to use social media by medical students for professionalisms.Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education Vol.9(2) 2018: 11-15

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What do We Know about the Use of Social Media in Medical Education?

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences ◽

10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.05.466 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 2262-2266 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Marius Călin Popoiu ◽

Gabriela Grosseck ◽

Carmen Holotescu

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Medical Education ◽

Use Of Social Media

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Social Media in Intensive Care

Law and ethics in intensive care ◽

10.1093/med/9780198817161.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 201-214

Author(s):

Rosaleen Baruah

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Medical Education ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Legal Aspects ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Sizable Proportion ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Confidentiality And Privacy

The use of social media in intensive care has increased steadily since their development in the early 2000s. Usage of social media platforms are now part of everyday life for a sizable proportion of the world’s population. The success of social media relies upon developing a culture where openness and sharing are the norm. This is at odds with traditional medical ethical values such as confidentiality and privacy. Social media can be used for both social and professional purposes, which can lead to unhelpful blurring of lines between personal and professional roles. This chapter discusses guidelines for use of social media for communication purposes by healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom, the benefits and pitfalls of the use of social media for medical education, and the legal aspects of use of social media with respect to intensive care.

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Social Media and Medical Education in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.25892 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Marc Katz ◽

Neilanjan Nandi

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Social Media ◽

Medical Education ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Informal Education ◽

Medical Training ◽

Leadership Roles ◽

Cultural Changes ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Use Of Social Media

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has brought virtual web-based learning to the forefront of medical education as training programs adapt to physical distancing challenges while maintaining the rigorous standards of medical training. Social media has unique and partially untapped potential to supplement formal medical education. OBJECTIVE The aim of this review is to provide a summary of the incentives, applications, challenges, and pitfalls of social media–based medical education for both trainees and educators. METHODS We performed a literature review via PubMed of medical research involving social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, and podcasts. Papers were reviewed for inclusion based on the integrity and power of the study. RESULTS The unique characteristics of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, and podcasts endow them with unique communication capabilities that serve different educational purposes in both formal and informal education settings. However, contemporary medical education curricula lack widespread guidance on meaningful use, application, and deployment of social media in medical education. CONCLUSIONS Clinicians and institutions must evolve to embrace the use of social media platforms for medical education. Health care professionals can approach social media engagement in the same ethical manner that they would with patients in person; however, health care institutions ultimately must enable their health care professionals to achieve this by enacting realistic social media policies. Institutions should appoint clinicians with strong social media experience to leadership roles to spearhead these generational and cultural changes. Further studies are needed to better understand how health care professionals can most effectively use social media platforms as educational tools. Ultimately, social media is here to stay, influencing lay public knowledge and trainee knowledge. Clinicians and institutions must embrace this complementary modality of trainee education and champion social media as a novel distribution platform that can also help propagate truth in a time of misinformation, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Using Social Media as a Dynamic Supplement to Traditional Teaching

Journal of Integrative Cardiology Open Access ◽

10.31487/j.jicoa.2020.04.08 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Abu Choudhary ◽

Swati Anand ◽

Setu Mehta ◽

Abu Choudhary ◽

Siddharth Bhesania ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Medical Education ◽

Traditional Teaching ◽

Communication Tools ◽

On Demand ◽

New Methods ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Methods Of Learning ◽

Care Requirements ◽

Share Information

Covid-19 pandemic brought many changes in our lives and lead us to find new ways of didactic teaching. Social distancing has forced us to create new methods of learning. Social media use is pervasive. It is not just a means to connect with others, engage with news content, share information, and provide entertainment; it is also a platform to learn. The use of social media in medical education has increased with trainees, practitioners, and educators adopting these communication tools to facilitate learning, practice improvement, and knowledge translation [1]. Resident doctors at a University-affiliated hospital started a project of interpreting EKG using "WhatsApp" to provide an on-demand and dynamic platform to residents where they can ask questions about EKGs and collaborate to learn from peers and experts. The experience revealed that residents could participate in this learning exercise at their leisure while not constrained by their patient-care requirements. While social media cannot replace traditional teaching, it can be used as a supplemental tool to empower the students to get the skills they need to succeed. Such experiments are successful with Twitter, YouTube and other platforms also. In recent times COVID forced us to use distance learning using Zoom, WebEx or similar platforms.

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