1st Edition

Social Media in Medicine

Edited By Margaret Chisolm Copyright 2016
106 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

The use of social media around the world has exploded in recent years, with the number of monthly active users of Facebook and Twitter estimated to be one billion and one quarter billion, respectively. Physicians and medical trainees are among the users of social media, raising questions of how Facebook, Twitter, and other novel online tools may best be harnessed to further medical research,... Read more

Introduction – Social media in medicine: The volume that Twitter built Margaret S. Chisolm

1. Perspectives on social media in and as research: A synthetic review Natalie T. Lafferty and Annalisa Manca

2. Ethical issues when using social media for health outside professional relationships Matthew Decamp

3. Online professionalism: A synthetic review Katherine C. Chretien and Matthew G. Tuck

4. Online social support networks Neil Mehta and Ashish Atreja

5. Social media for lifelong learning Terry Kind and Yolanda Evans

6. Live tweeting in medicine: ‘Tweeting the meeting’ Alexander M. Djuricich and Janine E. Zee-Cheng

7. Social media and medical education: Exploring the potential of Twitter as a learning tool Alireza Jalali, Jonathan Sherbino, Jason Frank and Stephanie Sutherland

8. Social media, medicine and the modern journal club Joel M. Topf and Swapnil Hiremath

9. A personal reflection on social media in medicine: I stand, no wiser than before John Wiener

10. Personal reflections on exploring social media in medicine Brent Thoma

11. My three shrinks: Personal stories of social media exploration Steve Daviss, Annette Hanson and Dinah Miller

Biography

Margaret S. Chisolm is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She writes about substance use, humanistic practice, and medical education; and is a Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence member, an Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism Scholar, and 2014 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award recipient.