Use of social media in education among medical students in Saudi Arabia

Alsuraihi, Anas; Almaqati, Ahmed Saeed; Abughanim, Sultan Adnan; Jastaniah, Nisreen Abdulrahman

doi:10.3946/kjme.2016.40

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“…The study was conducted among medical universities in Saudi Arabia by Alsuraihi AK et al, in 2016, stated that 95.8% of the students felt that social media learning was beneficial, 40% of the students thought using social media might be distracting during the period of learning. While in the current study 86% found it beneficial [16].…”

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Effectiveness of Social Media in Learning Anatomy among Students Studying in First-Year M.B.B.S., – A Prospective Study

J¹,

H.A²,

Kumar³

2019

SIJAP

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Background: In the current era of globalization and modernization teaching-learning methods employed in medical education needs revamping to keep pace with the changing trends in teacher-student interactions and teaching-learning methods. Social media as an educational tool seems to be a promising adjunct to impart medical knowledge to the millennial minds. So, the current study was done with students studying anatomy in first year M.B.B.S 2017-2018 batch at GMC &ESICH, CBE to evaluate the usefulness of social media as an educational tool in learning anatomy. Aims & Objectives: To assess the impact and usefulness of social media in learning anatomy among students studying in first year M.B.B.S 2017-2018 batch at GMC &ESICH, CBE for a period of one year. Material and Methods: A questionnaire was prepared containing 9 questions pertaining to the usefulness of social media as a tool in the learning anatomy after getting ethical clearance. The same was given to 100 students studying in the first-year MBBS and their responses were collected and evaluated statically. Results: Out of 100 questionnaires distributed, all were completed, collected and evaluated (response rate: 100%). Of 100 students, 86% students felt that using social media helped them to understand the subject better, 81% students felt that social media tools they used made their learning experience enjoyable and subjects interesting, 67% students felt that they were motivated to learn more through social media and that they could inculcate the habit of learning through social media with ease, 52% of students answered positively for usefulness for all topics, 44% of students answered excellent as their overall rating, 41% of students felt that using social media tools was more time consuming, 38% of students felt that it was useful for preparing and facing their various theory and practical examinations, 16% of students reported using social media regularly for their study of anatomy. Conclusion: Social media seems to be a promising tool in medical education in the light of changing trends of education. Judicial use of the same may facilitate better learning, understanding, and application of acquired knowledge.

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confidence: 56%

Effectiveness of Social Media in Learning Anatomy among Students Studying in First-Year M.B.B.S., – A Prospective Study

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H.A²,

Kumar³

2019

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“…Alsuraihi, Almaqati, Abughanim, and Jastaniah (2016) [8] argue that social media is gradually becoming an important communication tool in the 21 st century penetrating academia at uncontrollable levels. This is because the social media platforms act as alternative information focal points thus students use in the compilation of their research projects.…”

Section: Medical Education In Saudi Arabiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, a tweet or post that is shared extensively on a social media platform may be inclined to be true and factual. It is important to acknowledge that not all truthful information is factual (Alsuraihi et al, 2016) [8].…”

Section: Medical Education In Saudi Arabiamentioning

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“…As a result, this has changed the education landscape in the country. Statistics in a study done in Saudi Arabia revealed that 74.4 percent of students used social media in their medical institution as an educational tool (Alsuraihi et al, 2016) [8]. In light of this, it is evident that the inclusion of social media as an education tool in medical school was an enabling factor in the promotion of fake news in the studies.…”

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Library Literacy Program: Library as Battleground for Fighting Fakenews

Taala¹,

Franco²,

Teresa³

2019

OALib

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“…Closed groups specialized in higher education are already frequent. The use of these new platforms to exchange, share and communicate ideas and knowledge among students, in particular Medicine, open new possibilities in student-teacher relations [6]- [17]. Students are very familiar with the use of social networks, access daily and from multiple devices.…”

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Go Where the Students Are: Groups in Facebook to Improve Communication Between Students and Educators

Nájera¹,

González-Rubio²,

Ramirez-Vazquez³

et al. 2017

INTED Proceedings

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With the arrival of social media, medical students, future healthcare professionals, not only need to be aware of professionalism in their face-to-face interactions but also in the new virtual environments. Use of social networking by medical students is increasing, and some students lack awareness of consequences arising from the crossing of social networking and medicine. In this context, the use of Facebook could develop medical education beyond the restrictions of the classroom, and be the connection between informal and formal learning, engaging students with educational content outside the classroom. Moreover, social media can be also used in health care training to improve communication between students and educators, patient communication, public health programs or research. The aim of this study was to assess the interest and participation of students and educators of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) in a closed and private group in Facebook. The group was created in September 2011 and it already has 939 users between administrative staff, teachers and students. There were no rules more than terms of use of Facebook, but it is recommendable that posts might be related to Health and Research in Medical Sciences. We analysed its use during the course 2015-16 through which there were a total of 563 publications, most of them done by students (344; 61%) rather than the faculty and the staff (219;39%). A total of 9,375 impressions, comments and shares were also registered. We classify publications between three mayor themes: those related to learning (181), scientific advances and science spreading (242), and other (140). Students shared more contents related to learning process (139) rather than scientific advances (94) and others (111), while teachers shared 148, 42 and 29 respectively. We also analysed the number or impressions to post 583 comments, 130 shares, and a total of 8662 impressions ("likes"). Students greatly appreciate the group use by teachers, but only a few have an account in social networks. In general, the posts that raise more interest were those related to science. We perform an opinion survey in the group: a total of 97 users answer the survey, 96 indicated that the group was useful or very useful and that they were very satisfied; only one user indicates that was fairly satisfied. The group facilitates communication between students and teachers, approaching each other, the group helped to create "community". These groups, where informal themes can be shared and discussed, could help to acquire a number of very interesting and characteristic competitions of the time we live in extracurricular.

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Use of social media in education among medical students in Saudi Arabia

Cited by 61 publications

References 14 publications

Effectiveness of Social Media in Learning Anatomy among Students Studying in First-Year M.B.B.S., – A Prospective Study

Effectiveness of Social Media in Learning Anatomy among Students Studying in First-Year M.B.B.S., – A Prospective Study

Library Literacy Program: Library as Battleground for Fighting Fakenews

Go Where the Students Are: Groups in Facebook to Improve Communication Between Students and Educators

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