Professional Conduct and Social Media

Social media and clinical care: ethical, professional, and social implications.

t is an exciting time to practice medicine during our digital " coming of age. " Social media, the freely available Web-based platforms that facilitate information sharing of user-generated content, such as social networking sites, media-sharing sites, blogs, microblogs, and wikis, have transformed the way we communicate as a society. Through community building, message amplification, rapid dis...

Professional use of social media by pharmacists.

BACKGROUND A recent trend among health care professionals is the use of social media for professional purposes. These rapidly expanding media allow for timely and efficient access to health information, but they also carry the potential for increased liability. There is a paucity of research detailing how health care professionals, specifically pharmacists, use social media. OBJECTIVE To char...

Social Media in Professional Medicine: New Resident Perceptions and Practices

BACKGROUND For younger generations, unconstrained online social activity is the norm. Little data are available about perceptions among young medical practitioners who enter the professional clinical arena, while the impact of existing social media policy on these perceptions is unclear. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the existing perceptions about social media and p...

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Professional Learning in Unlikely Spaces: Social Media and Virtual Communities as Professional Development

In this case study, results demonstrate that an individual’s use of social media as professional learning spans understanding, networking, professional identity development, and transformative learning. Specifically, virtual online communities facilitated through social media provide professional networks, social relationships and learning beyond the scope of the individual’s usual experience. ...