Evaluating the Use of Social Media to Enhance the Educational Experience of a Medical School Surgery Clerkship
Evaluating the Use of Social Media to Enhance the Educational Experience of a Medical School Surgery Clerkship
Academic Year:
2013 - 2014 (June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2014)
Funding Requested:
$4,000.00
Project Dates:
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Overview of the Project:
Evaluating the Use of Social Media to Enhance the Educational Experience of a Medical School Surgery Clerkship Over the last decade, online social media has become a popular and widely used means of interpersonal interaction and communication. Twitter is one such free social networking service that allows people to communicate and interact through "microblogging:" the act of exchanging small pieces of information in 140 characters or less. Since it was created in 2006, it has grown exponentially to include more than 200 million users worldwide, with more than half "tweeting" once per month to an audience of "followers". Numerous scholarly articles have investigated the use of Twitter in medicine, including a recent JAMA article identifying more than 300 physicians on Twitter with more than 500 followers. Multiple articles highlighting the potential benefits of using Twitter for educational purposes have also been published recently.
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