Social Media Use by Health Care Professionals and Trainees

Hamm, Michele P; Chisholm, Annabritt; Shulhan, Jocelyn; Milne, Andrea; Scott, Shannon D.; Klassen, Terry P.; Hartling, Lisa

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“…10,11 New CWAs, such as Google Docs TM and wikis, are rapidly gaining popularity in medical education because they support free and open collaboration and decentralize content production. 4,7,9,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Constructivist learning principles support the use of social media in medical education. Instead of passively receiving information, students can actively create course content, and by doing so increase their comprehension and knowledge retention.…”

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Emergency medicine residents’ beliefs about contributing to an online collaborative slideshow

Archambault

Thanh

Blouin

et al. 2015

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Objective: Collaborative writing applications (CWAs), such as the Google Docs TM platform, can improve skill acquisition, knowledge retention, and collaboration in medical education. Using CWAs to support the training of residents offers many advantages, but stimulating them to contribute remains challenging. The purpose of this study was to identify emergency medicine (EM) residents' beliefs about their intention to contribute summaries of landmark articles to a Google Docs TM slideshow while studying for their RoyalCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) certification exam. Method: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior, the authors interviewed graduating RCPSC EM residents about contributing to a slideshow. Residents were asked about behavioral beliefs (advantages/disadvantages), normative beliefs (positive/negative referents), and control beliefs (barriers/facilitators). Two reviewers independently performed qualitative content analysis of interview transcripts to identify salient beliefs in relation to the defined behaviors.Results: Of 150 eligible EM residents, 25 participated. The main reported advantage of contributing to the online slideshow was learning consolidation (n = 15); the main reported disadvantage was information overload (n = 3). The most frequently reported favorable referents were graduating EM residents writing the certification exam (n = 16). Few participants (n = 3) perceived any negative referents. The most frequently reported facilitator was peerreviewed high-quality scientific information (n = 9); and the most frequently reported barrier was time constraints (n = 22). Conclusion: Salient beliefs exist regarding EM residents' intention to contribute content to an online collaborative writing project using a Google Docs TM slideshow. Overall, participants perceived more advantages than disadvantages to contributing and believed that this initiative would receive wide support. However, participants reported several barriers that need to be addressed to increase contributions. Our intention is for the beliefs identified in this study to contribute to the design of a theory-based questionnaire to explore determinants of residents' intentions to contribute to an online collaborative writing project. This will help develop implementation strategies for increasing contributions to other CWAs in medical education. RÉSUMÉObjectif: Les applications d'écriture collective (AEC), telles que la plateforme Google Docs TM , peuvent améliorer l'acquisition des compétences, la conservation du savoir et la collaboration en formation médicale. Ainsi, les AEC utilisées à l'appui de la formation donnée aux résidents offrent de nombreux avantages, mais la contribution au contenu relève du défi. L'étude décrite ici avait pour but de recueillir l'opinion des résidents en médecine d'urgence (MU) sur leur intention de présenter des résumés d'article novateur dans un diaporama Google Docs pendant qu'ils se préparaient à leur examen de certification du Collège royal des médecins et chirurgiens ...

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emergency medicine residents’ beliefs about contributing to an online collaborative slideshow

Archambault

Thanh

Blouin

et al. 2015

CJEM

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“…Yet, there is little information about trends in qualitative and mixed methods approaches to social media research. Prior literature reviews have included discussions of trends in research approaches but have provided a more global classification of general trends (e.g., Best et al, Hamm et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2013;Williams et al, 2013). This literature review serves to expand the knowledge base regarding how qualitative and mixed methods have been applied to social media research.…”

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Qualitative and Mixed Methods Social Media Research

Snelson

2016

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Social media technologies have attracted substantial attention among many types of users including researchers who have published studies for several years. This article presents an overview of trends in qualitative and mixed methods social media research literature published from 2007 through 2013. A collection of 229 qualitative studies were identified through a systematic literature review process. A subset of 55 of these articles report studies involving a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Articles were reviewed, analyzed, and coded through a qualitative content analysis approach. Overall trends are presented with respect to the entire collection of articles followed by an analysis of mixed methods research approaches identified in the subset of 55 studies. The most commonly used research approaches involved collecting data from people through interview, focus group, and survey methodologies. Content analysis was the second most commonly used approach whereby researchers use Facebook posts, Tweets (Twitter posts), YouTube videos, or other social media content as a data source. Many of the studies involving combinations of quantitative and qualitative data followed a design resembling Creswell and Plano Clark's basic mixed methods typology (e.g., convergent parallel, explanatory sequential, and exploratory sequential).Keywords social media research, Web 2.0, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, mixed methods, qualitative This article presents a descriptive methodological analysis of qualitative and mixed methods approaches for social media research. It is based on a systematic review of 229 qualitative or mixed methods research articles published from 2007 through 2013 where social media played a central role. Publication trends are presented for the entire set of articles followed by analysis of a subset of 55 studies that combined qualitative and quantitative approaches consistent with an established mixed methods typology (Creswell, 2014;Creswell & Plano Clark, 2011). The literature analysis is first contextualized by presenting a brief overview of related scholarly activity in the emerging field of social media research. This is followed by a discussion of publication trends and methodologies applied in this systematic literature review.Kaplan and Haenlein (2010) defined social media as '' . . . a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of User Generated Content'' (p. 61). The emergence of social media technologies has been embraced by a growing number of users who post text messages, pictures, and videos online (Duggan, 2013;Duggan, Ellison, Lampe, Lenhart, & Madden, 2015). Reports of worldwide social networking activity suggest that there were 1.96 billion users in 2015 with predictions of 2.44 billion users by 2018 (Statista, 2015). Of all the social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are among the most popular ranking within the top 10 of a list of most heavily ...

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“…This percentage had increased from 2.4% in 2010 and 10.9% in 2011 [12]. Researchers, particularly in biomedicine, are increasingly using social media for health promotion [22,23], education [24], and to facilitate communication and improve knowledge [25].…”

Section: Altmetrics In Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scholarly Tweets: Measuring Research Impact via Altmetrics

Featherstone¹

2014

J Can Health Libr Assoc

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Social Media Use by Health Care Professionals and Trainees

Cited by 124 publications

References 18 publications

Emergency medicine residents’ beliefs about contributing to an online collaborative slideshow

Emergency medicine residents’ beliefs about contributing to an online collaborative slideshow

Qualitative and Mixed Methods Social Media Research

Scholarly Tweets: Measuring Research Impact via Altmetrics

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