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Trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators
PURPOSE: Social media (SM) is one of the most powerful tools of communication and learning in the recent era. Different types of information can be shared through these social networking sites in the form of texts, videos, pictures, audios, and references (contacts). Due to the constant increase in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9486650/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36147096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104420 |
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author | Nisar, Sumera Alshanberi, Asim Muhammad Mousa, Ahmed Hafez El Said, Manal Hassan, Fatma Rehman, Areeb Ansari, Shakeel Ahmed |
author_facet | Nisar, Sumera Alshanberi, Asim Muhammad Mousa, Ahmed Hafez El Said, Manal Hassan, Fatma Rehman, Areeb Ansari, Shakeel Ahmed |
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description | PURPOSE: Social media (SM) is one of the most powerful tools of communication and learning in the recent era. Different types of information can be shared through these social networking sites in the form of texts, videos, pictures, audios, and references (contacts). Due to the constant increase in the use of these social networking sites in our daily routine life especially during the COVID 19 pandemic, their use in teaching and learning has become inevitable. Social media has immense potential to enhance its role in educational settings. Both the students and educators use it for communication, education, sharing and expressing knowledge, and recreation. Therefore, the present study aims to find out the most frequently used social network sites for learning and easy communication between medical students and educators. OBJECTIVE: This study sought to explore the most frequently used social networking sites by the medical students and educators at Batterjee Medical College. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the trends of usage of SM as an extracurricular way of enhancing learning and teaching experience among medical students and educators in Batterjee Medical College; Saudi Arabia from November 2020 to March 2021. A pre-validated self-administrated questionnaire was built using Google Drive forms and distributed to medical students and educators via emails and WhatsApp. Convenient sampling was used to collect the data. CONCLUSION: Social media has immense potential to enhance its role in educational settings. Students in our study preferred YouTube and WhatsApp for their learning and communication especially, during COVID 19 pandemic. However, to further enhance their utility choosing the right platform, the amount and quality of the information shared to ensure optimal benefit, providing ethical guides, and professional standards for SM use at institutional levels are the few challenges that need to address. |
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spelling | pubmed-94866502022-09-21 Trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators Nisar, Sumera Alshanberi, Asim Muhammad Mousa, Ahmed Hafez El Said, Manal Hassan, Fatma Rehman, Areeb Ansari, Shakeel Ahmed Ann Med Surg (Lond) Cross-sectional Study PURPOSE: Social media (SM) is one of the most powerful tools of communication and learning in the recent era. Different types of information can be shared through these social networking sites in the form of texts, videos, pictures, audios, and references (contacts). Due to the constant increase in the use of these social networking sites in our daily routine life especially during the COVID 19 pandemic, their use in teaching and learning has become inevitable. Social media has immense potential to enhance its role in educational settings. Both the students and educators use it for communication, education, sharing and expressing knowledge, and recreation. Therefore, the present study aims to find out the most frequently used social network sites for learning and easy communication between medical students and educators. OBJECTIVE: This study sought to explore the most frequently used social networking sites by the medical students and educators at Batterjee Medical College. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the trends of usage of SM as an extracurricular way of enhancing learning and teaching experience among medical students and educators in Batterjee Medical College; Saudi Arabia from November 2020 to March 2021. A pre-validated self-administrated questionnaire was built using Google Drive forms and distributed to medical students and educators via emails and WhatsApp. Convenient sampling was used to collect the data. CONCLUSION: Social media has immense potential to enhance its role in educational settings. Students in our study preferred YouTube and WhatsApp for their learning and communication especially, during COVID 19 pandemic. However, to further enhance their utility choosing the right platform, the amount and quality of the information shared to ensure optimal benefit, providing ethical guides, and professional standards for SM use at institutional levels are the few challenges that need to address. Elsevier 2022-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9486650/ /pubmed/36147096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104420 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Cross-sectional Study Nisar, Sumera Alshanberi, Asim Muhammad Mousa, Ahmed Hafez El Said, Manal Hassan, Fatma Rehman, Areeb Ansari, Shakeel Ahmed Trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators |
title | Trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators |
title_full | Trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators |
title_fullStr | Trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators |
title_full_unstemmed | Trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators |
title_short | Trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators |
title_sort | trend of social media use by undergraduate medical students; a comparison between medical students and educators |
topic | Cross-sectional Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9486650/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36147096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104420 |
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