Describe a range of social media platforms

Benefits of engaging in social media

Understand limitations, risks and guidelines

Engage in dialogue around digital professionalism

Access tools

Think about the social media tools -

Which of the tools do you use socially?

Which have you used for learning and professional development?

Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Blogging sites
Podcasts
FOAMed
other?

Med Students -> Textbooks/Lectures

Jnr Registrar -> Textbooks/Rv Articles

Snr Registrar -> Rv Articles/Guidelines/Original Research

Consultants -> Original Research/Conferences

How does social media fit into this model?

Personalised learning networks

Medical educators are using twitter to connect, collaborate, communicate, curate, co-create.

Discussion Twitter and Podcasts as learning tools

Discussion Twitter and Podcasts as learning tools

Discussion Twitter and Podcasts as learning tools

How does this actually work pragmatically??
- Are you an active participant or a silent consumer?
- Can you set up your own open learning network?

How do you pick your sources?
Is there anyway to make sure that what you’re reading as actually evidence based?

Is it valid?
Reliable?

Am I at the right level to actually assess?

If you are using the wrong sources, this can be negative

Scoring systems available:
Social Media Index (SM-i) ALiEM
LIFTL - Life in the Fastlane

Is it appropriate at my workplace?
RABOA example

Should medical students be using twitter?
Advice from Andrew Micieli (@medstudent_blog):

- Build a network of high quality medicine-related Twitter feeds.

- There are different feeds available with unique professional perspectives and feeds tailored to different medical specialties.

- Twitter to easily access information is the hashtag (word or phrase preceded by the pound, #, sign). You can search a specific hashtag to read articles dealing with a specific topic.

- Using the hashtag #USMLE, students can ask and answer questions through tweets. Physicians and other health care professionals can join in as well by easily accessing the tweets through the hashtag. Certain feeds, such as @Radiopaedia, provide easily accessible radiology images to quickly view at your convenience and are good study tools.

- Using the hashtag #meded for medical education is particularly helpful. It is a great resource for news, networking, independent learning and teaching.

Follow @UQ_RCS
and @UQ_News

To mitigate the risks of social media, be sure to read the Medical Board’s social media policy
1. Medical Board of Australia. Social Media Policy. Available at: medicalboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Policies/Social-mediapolicy.aspx.

AMA guidelines for taking clinical images on personal mobile devices:
https://ama.com.au/sites/default/files/documents/FINAL_AMA_Clinical_Images_...

Before taking a clinical image, consider the purpose for which you require the image, and obtain appropriate consent

Make sure the patient understands the reasons for taking the image, how it will
be used, and to whom it will be shown. or if the patient would reasonably expect you to send the image for the
In these circumstances, you should seek advice from hospital management or your medical defence organisation.

If you are online you will have a digital footprint

Think about your privacy settings

Is anything on the web private?

What you tweet is your online footprint and can be read by the university, health service, patients and can compromise the public’s perception of the medical field.

Content for this presentation was adapted from Social Media presentations created by

Natalie Lafferty
https://www.slideshare.net/eLime/as-pi-h-nov-13

Margaret Chisolm:
https://www.haikudeck.com/social-media-professionalism-for-nephrologists-ed...

Plus reference:
Why medical students should use twitter: Andrew Micieli @medstudent_blog