The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?

Abstract

Web 2.0 is a term describing new collaborative Internet applications. The primary difference from the original World Wide Web is greater user participation in developing and managing content, which changes the nature and value of the information. Key elements of Web 2.0 include: Really Simple Syndication (RSS) to rapidly disseminate awareness of new information; blogs to describe new trends; wikis to share knowledge; and podcasts to make information available “on the move”. The medical community needs to be aware of these technologies and their increasing role in providing health information “any time, any place”.

Lehre 2.0 - Wie werden Social Media und Web 2.0 in die medizinische Ausbildung eingebunden? Ein systematischer Literaturüberblick

“…19 publications were related to the education in England, New Zealand, Australia and the USA [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]. Only one German publication was identified [21].…”

“…Only one German publication was identified [21]. 12 of the 20 articles were from the USA [3], [5], [6], [7], [9], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [19], [20]. The designs were divided into articles on use and primary literature for the studies conducted, both of which were strongly represented.…”

“…These tools and communication technologies are used by students, instructors and patients in multiple ways to gain information and to communicate [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. Therefore, these tools should also be assimilated into the education of future doctors.…”

Community Intelligence in Knowledge Curation: An Application to Managing Scientific Nomenclature

“…A successful example that engages community intelligence in knowledge aggregation is Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org), an online encyclopedia allowing any user to create/edit any content. Although the openness of editorial capacity to the community may lead to potential vandalism, it is reported that Wikipedia not only achieves more content coverage than BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and CNN (Cable News Network) combined [3] but also rivals the traditional Encyclopedia in accuracy [4], [5]. Spirited by the extraordinary success of Wikipedia, it has been advocated, for instance, in life sciences, that biological knowledge databases go wiki [6].…”

Medizinstudium 2.0 dank Web 2.0?! – Risiken und Chancen am Beispiel des Leipziger Medizinstudiums

“…A student survey at the Faculty of Medicine in Leipzig found that on average, the Internet is used for study purposes alone for 8.3 hours every week by the some 200 respondents in the third and seventh semesters who took part [1]. As in many other walks of life, times have changed, and even the study of medicine has been altered by technical progress [2], [3]. However, the extent to which teaching staff have caught up with the changes and how they will be table to take students’ altered learning behaviour into account in the future are currently uncertain.…”