Social media in medical education: Can you trust it? Yes

Nettle, Matthew

doi:10.1111/1742-6723.13100

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“…Social media platforms such as Twitter can act as a catalyst for novel research projects that spark from discussion among collaborators that may never have met before. 11 Twitter’s rapidly updating quality makes it easier for the wider professional community to remain up to date (in real-time) with any novel developments being made in research, as well as any changes to guidelines and clinical practice. 12 Furthermore, due to the easily accessible nature of the Twitter platform across electronic devices, orthopaedic surgeons are more likely to initially discover educational and research content posted on social media rather than through formal literature searches which tend to be conducted relatively less frequently, in our experience.…”

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#OrthoTwitter: social media as an educational tool

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AimsThe increased use of social media creates opportunity for new, effective methods of delivering medical and clinical education. Twitter is a popular social media platform where users can post frequent updates and create threads containing related content using hashtags. This study aims to investigate and analyse the type of content relating to orthopaedic surgery that is being posted on the platform of Twitter.MethodsA retrospective search was performed for tweets containing the words ‘orthopaedic surgery’ or ‘orthopedic surgery’ or the use of the hashtag ‘#OrthoTwitter’ between November 2018 to November 2019. A total of 5243 tweets were included.ResultsTweets containing ‘orthopaedic surgery’ or ‘orthopedic surgery’ most frequently contained promotional or marketing content (30% promotional, 21% marketing), and private organisations were the category of author to which the greatest number of tweets belonged (30%). Tweets containing educational or research content were the least common among all tweets containing ‘orthopaedic surgery’ or ‘orthopedic surgery’ (11%). In contrast, of the tweets containing the hashtag ‘#OrthoTwitter’, 44% contained educational or research content, 15% contained promotional content and no tweets containing marketing content. Furthermore, 87% of all tweets using the hashtag ‘#OrthoTwitter’ were from orthopaedic surgeons, and the least number of tweets were from private organisations (2%).ConclusionTwitter is a widely used social media platform regarding orthopaedic surgery. We propose that the hashtag ‘#OrthoTwitter’ can be used to create an online community of orthopaedic surgeons where members can assist one another through sharing reliable and educational content.

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#OrthoTwitter: social media as an educational tool

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“…Once students move beyond structured, supervised learning environments, they must recognize their own gaps in knowledge and skills over time and make every effort to fill them, adopting skills for lifelong learning [106]. The increasing mutability of knowledge in the digital age and its exchangeability and accessibility on mobile phones make learning thorough SM platforms a common practice for many medical students [35,117]. However, learning cannot be done through SM alone but is used to augment learning from textbooks, peer-reviewed research publications, and mentors, and just like with other sources of information, critical appraisal to information retrieved from SM must be applied; this is what lays the foundation for a future competent web-based learner [85,106,118].…”

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Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

Farsi¹

2021

J Med Internet Res

160

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Background As the world continues to advance technologically, social media (SM) is becoming an essential part of billions of people’s lives worldwide and is affecting almost every industry imaginable. As the world is becoming more digitally oriented, the health care industry is increasingly visualizing SM as an important channel for health care promotion, employment, recruiting new patients, marketing for health care providers (HCPs), building a better brand name, etc. HCPs are bound to ethical principles toward their colleagues, patients, and the public in the digital world as much as in the real world. Objective This review aims to shed light on SM use worldwide and to discuss how it has been used as an essential tool in the health care industry from the perspective of HCPs. Methods A literature review was conducted between March and April 2020 using MEDLINE, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science for all English-language medical studies that were published since 2007 and discussed SM use in any form for health care. Studies that were not in English, whose full text was not accessible, or that investigated patients’ perspectives were excluded from this part, as were reviews pertaining to ethical and legal considerations in SM use. Results The initial search yielded 83 studies. More studies were included from article references, and a total of 158 studies were reviewed. SM uses were best categorized as health promotion, career development or practice promotion, recruitment, professional networking or destressing, medical education, telemedicine, scientific research, influencing health behavior, and public health care issues. Conclusions Multidimensional health care, including the pairing of health care with SM and other forms of communication, has been shown to be very successful. Striking the right balance between digital and traditional health care is important.

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“…In the context of applying social media for learning purposes, the use of an already existing infrastructure may easily reach a large public [49,50]. At best, the immediate feedback in most social media leads to vivid discussions of the available learning material [51].…”

Section: Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitale Strategien in der Lehre

2019

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ZusammenfassungDie Entwicklung digitaler Strategien in der Lehre beruht auf den technologischen Fortschritten der letzten Jahrzehnte, aber auch auf der Motivation, ein didaktisches Konzept verstärkt auf den Lernenden zu zentrieren. Aus verfügbaren Daten der deutschen Hochschulmedizin ergibt sich das Bild, dass in der Medizin ganz allgemein und speziell in der HNO-Heilkunde digitale Lehrkonzepte aktuell noch eine untergeordnete Rolle spielen. Durch Erhebung eigener Daten konnten wir zeigen, dass die Studierenden in der HNO-Heilkunde in der Mehrheit auf durch den Dozenten ausgegebene Materialien als einzige Lernquelle zurückgreifen. Die Anwendung fundierter digitaler Lehrstrategien bietet daher, insbesondere fachbezogen für die HNO-Heilkunde, besondere Chancen, u. a. um dem Überangebot von Informationen aus teils unklaren Quellen im Internet entgegenzutreten.Der mögliche Digitalisierungsgrad der Lehre reicht heute von digitalen Serviceangeboten über punktuelle Angebote klassischer Lehrkonzepte und Blended Learning bis hin zum volldigitalen Studium. Die Attraktivität der curricularen Integration digitaler Lehrstrategien beruht dabei weniger auf der Nutzung rein technischer Fortschritte, sondern vielmehr auf den Möglichkeiten der Anwendung innovativer Curricula und neuer didaktischer Konzepte. In Abhängigkeit vom beabsichtigten Lehrzweck werden insbesondere dem Flipped Classroom und der digitalisierten Realität großes Potenzial zugeschrieben, während mobiles Lernen sich in der Praxis bereits individuell etabliert hat. Die Erprobung und Evaluierung digitaler Lehrinnovationen für konkrete Szenarien gehört aktuell zu den wichtigen wissenschaftlichen Herausforderungen digitaler Lehrkonzepte.Der flächendeckenden Etablierung digitaler Lehre stehen heute weniger technische Voraussetzungen, sondern vielmehr fehlende Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten im Wege, da Förderungen derzeit überwiegend projektgebunden stattfinden, bei dauerhafter Umsetzung jedoch regelmäßige Kosten vorhanden sind. Zur Unterstützung dieser vielversprechenden Lehrformen könnte die Förderung der Einrichtung von Abteilungen für digitale Lehre mit Bereitstellung von entsprechenden Hard- und Softwarelösungen an den Universitäten wesentlich beitragen. Durch die Bildung von Kooperationen zur Nutzung solcher digitalen Plattformen ergäbe sich eine hohe Effizienz in der Verbreitung unter gleichzeitiger Ausnutzung von Sparpotenzialen.

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Social media in medical education: Can you trust it? Yes

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

#OrthoTwitter: social media as an educational tool

#OrthoTwitter: social media as an educational tool

Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

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