The use of social media among Canadian anesthesiology training programs: a historical cohort study

Pivetta, Bianca; Gai, Nan

doi:10.1007/s12630-022-02215-2

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“…In both Canada and the United States, most anesthesiology residency programs have official accounts representing their programs on social media. Pivetta and Gai 37 found that of 17 Canadian anesthesiology training programs, 95% of programs had at least 1 social media account, whereas 77% had an Instagram account, 59% had Twitter accounts, 35% had a YouTube account, and 12% had a presence on LinkedIn. No publicly available Facebook or Tiktok accounts were identified.…”

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The Future of Social Media, Anesthesiology, and the Perioperative Physician

Tan,

Simpao,

Gálvez Delgado

2024

Anesthesia &Amp; Analgesia

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Social media has rapidly developed in the past decade to become a powerful and influential force for patients, physicians, health systems, and the academic community. While the use of social media in health care has produced many positive changes, such as rapid dissemination of information, crowd-sourced sharing of knowledge, learning, and social interaction, social media in health care has also negative effects. Recent examples of negative impacts of social media include rapid and unchecked information dissemination leading to patient misinformation and inadvertent reputational harm for health care professionals due to engaging in controversial topics on public platforms. Members of the anesthesiology community, like other medical specialties, have rapidly adopted social media at many different levels. However, most anesthesiologists, health systems, and academic communities have little education, preparation, and guidelines on optimizing the use of social media technology while minimizing the risks of social media. Anesthesiology has been and will continue to be impacted by the forces of technology and the cultural influences of social media for the foreseeable future. The purpose of this article was to examine the recent history of social media adoption in anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, understand the current impact of social media across our specialty, and consider how the future development of technology and evolving social and cultural dynamic influences of social media will have on anesthesiology over the next quarter century.

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Section: Graduate Medical Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%