Here are a few references on why and how to get started with social media for medical education, including articles about the use of social media, guidelines on how to use (and how NOT to use) social media, and links to online software.
- Starting in social media
- How I use social media for medical education (and why you should, too!)
- Social Media Workshop
- A Doctor’s Prescription for Social Media Part 1 (Part 2)
- Twitter Superuser
- Twitter for Nephrons
- The Social MEDia Course
- Twitter for Novices
- Mom this is how Twitter works
- A Guide to Social Media for the Physician Practice
- Social Media in Medical Education (video)
- How to Leverage Social Media to Become a Better Physician (video)
- Online resources
- Professionalism in social media
- Online Medical Professionalism: Patient and Public Relationships: Policy Statement, American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards
- Social media highway code, Royal College of General Practitioners
- Social Media Guidelines for Physicians, Massachusetts Medical Society
- A 12-word social media policy, Mayo Clinic
- Educational software
- Articles
- Cheston, Christine C., Tabor E. Flickinger, and Margaret S. Chisolm. “Social media use in medical education: a systematic review.” Academic Medicine 88.6 (2013): 893-901.
- Carroll, Christopher L., and Kristi Bruno. “Social Media and Free Open Access Medical Education: The Future of Medical and Nursing Education?.” American Journal of Critical Care 25.1 (2016): 93-96.
If you have other resources that I missed, please let me know in the comments below!
hi jonathan, nice list, thank you! a few suggestions: Drain IQ (www.drainiq.com) for managing surgical drains and Case (www.casejournals.com) for keeping up-to-date with medical research. cheers, ben