Social media: medical education's double-edged sword.
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medical education
social media
technology enhanced learning
Journal
Future healthcare journal
ISSN: 2514-6645
Titre abrégé: Future Healthc J
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101711246
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2021
Jul 2021
Historique:
entrez:
21
7
2021
pubmed:
22
7
2021
medline:
22
7
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Social media (SoMe) are platforms that enable users to create and share content, or participate in social networking. Medical education is rapidly moving into a post-COVID world, with the use of SoMe becoming ever more prominent. We explore the risks and benefits of using this technology to assist learning and examine these in light of relevant educational theory. Benefits include accessibility to experts, opportunities for mentorship, access to support networks, resource sharing and global participation. Following the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, SoMe has provided the impetus to adapt medical curricula to address health inequities in minority ethnic individuals. Key criticisms focus on superficial learning, psychological safety, correctly identifying level of expertise, professionalism and ownership protections for content creators. Users have limited ways to manage risk. The medical education community must adapt and rapidly critique SoMe innovations so that they can be better developed and learned from, all the while remaining vigilant.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34286204
doi: 10.7861/fhj.2020-0164
pii: futurehealth
pmc: PMC8285146
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e307-e310Informations de copyright
© Royal College of Physicians 2021. All rights reserved.
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