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Social Media in Health Science Education: An International Survey
BACKGROUND: Social media is an asset that higher education students can use for an array of purposes. Studies have shown the merits of social media use in educational settings; however, its adoption in health science education has been slow, and the contributing reasons remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: Th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28052842 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.6304 |
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author | O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Cutts, Emily Kavikondala, Sushma Salcedo, Alejandra D'Souza, Karan Hernandez-Torre, Martin Anderson, Claire Tiwari, Agnes Ho, Kendall Last, Jason |
author_facet | O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Cutts, Emily Kavikondala, Sushma Salcedo, Alejandra D'Souza, Karan Hernandez-Torre, Martin Anderson, Claire Tiwari, Agnes Ho, Kendall Last, Jason |
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description | BACKGROUND: Social media is an asset that higher education students can use for an array of purposes. Studies have shown the merits of social media use in educational settings; however, its adoption in health science education has been slow, and the contributing reasons remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: This multidisciplinary study aimed to examine health science students’ opinions on the use of social media in health science education and identify factors that may discourage its use. METHODS: Data were collected from the Universitas 21 “Use of social media in health education” survey, distributed electronically among the health science staff and students from 8 universities in 7 countries. The 1640 student respondents were grouped as users or nonusers based on their reported frequency of social media use in their education. RESULTS: Of the 1640 respondents, 1343 (81.89%) use social media in their education. Only 462 of the 1320 (35.00%) respondents have received specific social media training, and of those who have not, the majority (64.9%, 608/936) would like the opportunity. Users and nonusers reported the same 3 factors as the top barriers to their use of social media: uncertainty on policies, concerns about professionalism, and lack of support from the department. Nonusers reported all the barriers more frequently and almost half of nonusers reported not knowing how to incorporate social media into their learning. Among users, more than one fifth (20.5%, 50/243) of students who use social media “almost always” reported sharing clinical images without explicit permission. CONCLUSIONS: Our global, interdisciplinary study demonstrates that a significant number of students across all health science disciplines self-reported sharing clinical images inappropriately, and thus request the need for policies and training specific to social media use in health science education. |
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spelling | pubmed-52440312017-01-30 Social Media in Health Science Education: An International Survey O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Cutts, Emily Kavikondala, Sushma Salcedo, Alejandra D'Souza, Karan Hernandez-Torre, Martin Anderson, Claire Tiwari, Agnes Ho, Kendall Last, Jason JMIR Med Educ Original Paper BACKGROUND: Social media is an asset that higher education students can use for an array of purposes. Studies have shown the merits of social media use in educational settings; however, its adoption in health science education has been slow, and the contributing reasons remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: This multidisciplinary study aimed to examine health science students’ opinions on the use of social media in health science education and identify factors that may discourage its use. METHODS: Data were collected from the Universitas 21 “Use of social media in health education” survey, distributed electronically among the health science staff and students from 8 universities in 7 countries. The 1640 student respondents were grouped as users or nonusers based on their reported frequency of social media use in their education. RESULTS: Of the 1640 respondents, 1343 (81.89%) use social media in their education. Only 462 of the 1320 (35.00%) respondents have received specific social media training, and of those who have not, the majority (64.9%, 608/936) would like the opportunity. Users and nonusers reported the same 3 factors as the top barriers to their use of social media: uncertainty on policies, concerns about professionalism, and lack of support from the department. Nonusers reported all the barriers more frequently and almost half of nonusers reported not knowing how to incorporate social media into their learning. Among users, more than one fifth (20.5%, 50/243) of students who use social media “almost always” reported sharing clinical images without explicit permission. CONCLUSIONS: Our global, interdisciplinary study demonstrates that a significant number of students across all health science disciplines self-reported sharing clinical images inappropriately, and thus request the need for policies and training specific to social media use in health science education. JMIR Publications 2017-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5244031/ /pubmed/28052842 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.6304 Text en ©Elizabeth O'Sullivan, Emily Cutts, Sushma Kavikondala, Alejandra Salcedo, Karan D'Souza, Martin Hernandez-Torre, Claire Anderson, Agnes Tiwari, Kendall Ho, Jason Last. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org), 04.01.2017. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Education, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mededu.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Cutts, Emily Kavikondala, Sushma Salcedo, Alejandra D'Souza, Karan Hernandez-Torre, Martin Anderson, Claire Tiwari, Agnes Ho, Kendall Last, Jason Social Media in Health Science Education: An International Survey |
title | Social Media in Health Science Education: An International Survey |
title_full | Social Media in Health Science Education: An International Survey |
title_fullStr | Social Media in Health Science Education: An International Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Social Media in Health Science Education: An International Survey |
title_short | Social Media in Health Science Education: An International Survey |
title_sort | social media in health science education: an international survey |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28052842 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.6304 |
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