A presentation given by Dr Laura-Jane Smith @_elljay_ as part of a workshop at: Trainees in Medical Education Conference UCL Oct 2012 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicalschool/postgraduate/teaching-fellows/conference

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Social Media in Medical
Education
Laura-Jane Smith
Clinical teaching Fellow, ACME, UCL
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@_elljay_

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Workshop
• What is social media?
• Social media in teaching and learning
• Opportunities and concerns
• Your online profile

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A Vision of Students
Today

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What do you know?

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Why?

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Why?
• write
• build career
• international reach
• new types of resources
• collaborate, communicate, connect
• citations
• learn

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What?

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What?
• Wikis • Twitter
• MOOCs • Blogs
• Sites • RSS
• Dynamic medical textbooks • Apps
• Virtual classes/cases • Facebook
• New resources • Curation
• Youtube

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It’s good to blog

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It’s good to blog

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@_elljay_ on Twitter

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@gasclass on Twitter @twitjournalclub on Twitter

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Digital professionalism

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Group 1 Group 2

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Group 1 Group 2

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Group 1 Group 2

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Worries
• what if my boss reads this?
• what if my patients read this?
• what if my students read this?
• what if my mum reads this?
• what if the world reads this?

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What have I got from social media?
• Ideas • A better chance of effecting
change
• Contacts
• Invited to GMC meeting
• Information
• Presenting at AoMRC
• Feedback
• Meeting at RCP
• Helped me get my job?
• Invitation to be part of
• Noticed more at work? webcast for a BSc in Meded

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• What do you want to do with social media?
• What do you want it to do for you?
• Think about the image you are projecting
• Forget the hierarchy
• Share, share, share
• Be open to criticism as well as to support

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Final points
• Social media has potential for doctors
• Patients and students are already there
• Know what you want from it
• Digital professionalism is a challenge
• Keep talking, keep learning

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References: papers
• It’s good to blog Nature 457, 1058 (26 February 2009) | doi:10.1038/4571058a; Published
online 25 February 2009
• Physician Violations of Online Professionalism and Disciplinary Action: a National Survey of
State Medical Boards JAMA. 2012;307(11):1141-1142. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.330.
• American Medical Association (2010). Professionalism in the use of social media
• Farnan, JM., Paro, JA., Higa, JT., Reddy, ST., Humphrey, HJ., Arora, VM. (2009)
Commentary: the relationship status of digital media and professionalism: it's complicated.
Academic Medicine, 84: 1479–81.
• MacDonald, J, Sohn, S, Ellis, P (2010) Privacy, professionalism and Facebook: a dilemma
for young doctors. Medical Education, 44 :805–13.
• Using social media: practical and ethical guidance for doctors and medical students, British
Medical Association, 1st edition, 2011
• Draft Social Media Highway Code (2012). Royal College of General Practitioners
• Doctors’ use of Social Media: a draft for consultation (2012). The General Medical Council

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References: online
• blog.goyello.com/2010/07/21/social-media- • wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.c
is-like-teen-sex/ o.uk/
• thecourse.webicina.com/ • Blogs:
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page • daveonwheels.blogspot.co.uk/
• www.theconversationprism.com/ • kevinmd.com
• www.fredcavazza.net • e-patients.net
• www.youtube.com/watch? • imamedicalstudentgetmeoutofhere.blog
v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=youtu.be spot.co.uk/
• http://nmincite.com/ • casesblog.blogspot.co.uk/
• reputation.com • www.drlj.wordpress.com
• dean-jenkins.blogspot.fr/2012/09/medical- • www.nhseportfoliorevolution.com
education-social-media.html

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