Medical education innovation: the advent of social media

Advancing social media in medical education.

@SirBill: the power of social media to transform medical education.

If William Osler were to visit today the hospitals in Montreal, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Oxford where he taught in the latter part of the 19th century, he would encounter an array of innovations —robotic surgery, genomic sequencing, organ transplantation, to name a few— that formed no part of the medical landscape of his own time. On the other hand, the system of medical education used at th...

Social Media and Free Open Access Medical Education: The Future of Medical and Nursing Education?

Innovation in medical education.

O July 29, 2014, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report on the governance and financing of graduate medical education (GME).1 An important incidental finding of the IOM’s study was that the evidence base available to inform future directions for the substance, organization, and financing of GME is quite limited. The limited evidence reflects a systematic lack of research investment...

Future evolution of traditional journals and social media medical education.

Over the past two decades, the Internet has emerged as a powerful tool for the dissemination of medical knowledge. The routine online publication of peer-reviewed journals and the standardisation of the portable document format (.pdf) marked a coming of age for Internet technology allowing readers, authors and editors to quickly access articles old and new and share them efficiently. Although t...