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Why Medical Education Should Embrace Social Media

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In this age of technology, healthcare social media is becoming an all new important and emerging part of medicine.  One that until recently, I didn’t even realize existed.  Training programs all across the country, at least in my neck of the woods, are censoring how their residents and fellows are using their resources.  What do you think about unlocking their social media access while at the workplace and opening this up as an avenue for education and growth?  In this new generation of healthcare social media networking, maybe “access denied” isn’t just prohibiting trainees from posting their favorite Harlem shake video on hospital time.  Maybe it is actually prohibiting the the expansion of educational opportunities in the modern age. It’s time that medical education answer the call of this tremendous opportunity.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Rebecca Hastings, D.O. is a Pulmonary, Critical Care Fellow.

She is on twitter @RR_Hastings.

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How Healthcare Professionals Can Improve Online Health Literacy

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Our next  HCSM Buddy Mentoring Twitter chat (#hcsmbm) takes place this Wednesday at 6 pm GMT (12pm CT, 10am PT, 1 pm ET).

Quick Reminder…

#Hcsmbm is about developing  a buddy mentoring system to help those who are in need of assistance to navigate social media sites for healthcare information.

Margaret Whitehead in the early 1990s wrote that:

Equity in health implies that ideally everyone should have a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential and, more pragmatically, that no one should be disadvantaged from achieving this potential, if it can be avoided.*

We believe this now extends to access to online healthcare information and support.

We are grateful to Randy Chalfant  for providing the inspiration for this week’s chat, which will focus on how we can engage doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) in the discussion.

Randy points out that we all have individual needs when it comes to healthcare information, so this will be the point of focus of our first topic.

T1 How do we assess what a patient needs in terms of online healthcare information and support?

Health literacy is defined as the cognitive and social skills that determine a person’s motivation and ability to access, understand and use information in ways that maintain or enhance health. So our next topic for discussion will focus on motivation.

T2 How do we motivate patients to take an active role in their healthcare?

T3 How do we motivate HCPs to partner with patients in achieving their healthcare goals?

We will finish our discussion with some brainstorming.

T4 How can we help patients to access, understand and use online healthcare information and support to attain their full health potential.

We hope you will join us for this unique Twitter chat (hashtag #hcsmbm) and help us brainstorm ideas to get a HCSM Buddy Mentoring system off the ground.

Marie (@JBBC), Vanessa (@Irl4Livestrong),  Patty (@topsurf), Shu (@shumilne)

*Ref:  HEALTH DISPARITIES AND HEALTH EQUITY: Concepts and Measurement Annual Review of Public Health Vol. 27: 167-194

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Social Media and Communication Technology: New “Friends” in Healthcare

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OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing is a peer-reviewed publication that provides a forum for discussion of the issues inherent in current topics of interest to nurses and other health care professionals. The intent of this journal is to present different views on issues that affect nursing research, education, and practice, thus enabling readers to understand the full complexity of a topic. The interactive format of the journal encourages a dynamic dialogue resulting in a comprehensive discussion of the topic, thereby building up the body of nursing knowledge and suggesting policy implications that enhance the health of the public. The journal is indexed by Medline, CINAHL and Scopus.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Excellent article

See on www.nursingworld.org