Use of Smart Phones and Social Media in Medical Education: Trends, Advantages, Challenges and Barriers

Latif, Muhammad Zahid; Hussain, Intzar; Saeed, Rizwan; Qureshi, Muhammad Atif; Maqsood, Umer

doi:10.5455/aim.2019.27.133-138

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“…Social media has become a powerful instrument for international collaboration and knowledge and information sharing that supplements traditional learning, and rheumatology medical education has been no exception. Recent years have seen increasing trends in the utilization of social media for teaching and learning in the health professions [13]. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Instagram provide learners and facilitators in the health professions a chance to interact, collaborate, and share perspectives and information with each other, as well as facilitate wide dissemination of educational material.…”

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Challenges, collaboration, and innovation in rheumatology education during the COVID-19 pandemic: leveraging new ways to teach

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The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly impacted the field of rheumatology, in both the delivery of clinical care and didactic education for our trainees. These changes have generated significant strain for program directors and clinical educators who have had to leverage technology and develop new systems to ensure continued trainee education and assessment. We aim to outline the impacts on formal education programs presented by these unprecedented disruptions, describe the development and deployment of online teaching, reflect on the challenges and opportunities for technology-enabled learning and use of social media for education, and give some international perspectives on impacts on postgraduate rheumatology training outside the USA. With the rapid dissolution of barriers in place during the pre-COVID-19 era, we have the opportunity to assess the efficacy of new methods of care and further integrate technology into teaching and assessment. We propose that a hybrid in-person and technology-enabled learning approach, so-called blended learning, is likely to remain the most desirable future model for supporting trainee learning.

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Section: Use Of Social Media Platforms To Deliver Knowledge and Informentioning

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Challenges, collaboration, and innovation in rheumatology education during the COVID-19 pandemic: leveraging new ways to teach

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“…It can enhance learning if used appropriately and as well constitute a great deal of distraction if misused by the students. Against this backdrop, secondary school students should be properly guided and given an adequate orientation before providing them with electronic devices like smart phones as a majority of students use a smartphone to access social media [19]. Intermittent meetings in the form of seminars, workshops, or one on one canceling should be encouraged in secondary school.…”

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A Comparative Study on the Use of Social Media, Reading Habits and Academic Performance of Secondary School Students

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Morka

2020

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Aim: A comparative study was conducted on how the use of social media affects the reading habit and academic performance of secondary school students. Study Design: The study adopted the descriptive survey research design to help elicit data from the target population through questionnaire, observations and interview instruments. Methodology: The questionnaires were randomly administered to both male and female students. Results: Social media is a great digital platform for learning and obtaining current information. There are consequences attached to the proper use and misuse among adolescent students. More than 50% of social media operators in secondary schools are users of Facebook. 58 out of 75 students who scored “A” grade in their favourite subject operated social media. 67.23% of the total respondents who use the social media didn’t score an “A” grade in their favourite subject. Students who operated more than one social media network scarcely scored an “A” grade. Only 3.5% of students spent up to 4 hours of reading every day. 46.5% read for 2-3 hours and 36.5% read for an hour. 11.5% read for 30munites while 2% read for less than 30 minutes. Conclusion: Students should be properly guided and given an adequate orientation before providing them with electronic devices like smart phones. Teachers should be encouraged to join large student groups. Off-topics and non-academic discussions should be curtailed.

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“…Despite the description of social media relevance as a teaching and learning tool in medical education [ 1 , 10 ], there is strong evidence questioning these results [ 7 , 8 , 10 ]. Details of how students use social media for education and the lack of reliability and validity of the instrument used for data collection are pointed as weaknesses of these studies [ 7 , 8 ].…”

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“…The technological advancement over the last decade has caused an abrupt change in society [ 1 , 2 ]. It has changed the way of buying, listening to music, ordering food, among others.…”

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A perspective on retina education through social media

Guerra¹

2020

Int J Retin Vitr

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Since the beginning of the Internet, new ways of providing medical education have emerged. Social media networks are one of the most influential communication tools and allow content sharing, collaborative modification and interaction. Its relevance for teaching and learning in medical education has been extensively studied. These new media have also heightened the need for a new way of communication. The purpose of this article is to discuss the value of communication in medical education through social media and present an eight-year personal experience on this field.

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Use of Smart Phones and Social Media in Medical Education: Trends, Advantages, Challenges and Barriers

Cited by 168 publications

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Challenges, collaboration, and innovation in rheumatology education during the COVID-19 pandemic: leveraging new ways to teach

Challenges, collaboration, and innovation in rheumatology education during the COVID-19 pandemic: leveraging new ways to teach

A Comparative Study on the Use of Social Media, Reading Habits and Academic Performance of Secondary School Students

A perspective on retina education through social media

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