Opportunities and Obstacles for Providing Medical Education Through Social Media

Social media has infiltrated almost every sector of life, and medical education is no exception. As this technology becomes mainstream within society, an increasing number of health care students and professionals are using it for learning. Several important considerations for the risks of this tech...

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Autores principales: Wilkinson, Aimee, Ashcroft, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6906614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31774407
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15297
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spelling pubmed-69066142019-12-23 Opportunities and Obstacles for Providing Medical Education Through Social Media Wilkinson, Aimee Ashcroft, James JMIR Med Educ Viewpoint Social media has infiltrated almost every sector of life, and medical education is no exception. As this technology becomes mainstream within society, an increasing number of health care students and professionals are using it for learning. Several important considerations for the risks of this technology are discussed here. JMIR Publications 2019-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6906614/ /pubmed/31774407 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15297 Text en ©Aimee Wilkinson, James Ashcroft. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org), 27.11.2019. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), 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.
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