Education Becomes Social: The Intersection of Social Media and Medical Education.
Among types of social media used in medical education, blogging is the most common tool studied for its outcomes and has been used to improve learner engagement, stimulate interaction with faculty, maintain students’ humanism and empathy, and enhance collaboration.
Abstract
Social media has become an integral method of communication for a vast majority of our digitally connected society. Although our patients have raced to join the throngs flooding social media sites and networks, the medical profession as a Blogging A blog (short for “web log”) is an online page or website containing writings and/or other media, often reflections or commentaries, published in reverse chronological order. Among types of social media used in medical education, blogging is the most common tool studied for its outcomes. Blogs have been used to improve learner engagement, stimulate interaction with faculty, maintain students’ humanism and empathy, and enhance collaboration. In 1 study, active participation in a blog-based discussion forum correlated with higher final course grades. Required reflective student blogs during a medicine clerkship heavily