The Youtube Companion to Film Education

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Surgical education on YouTube.

T he increasing popularity of internet social media is likely to present new opportunities and challenges to current paradigms in medical education. 1 Some advocate that social media (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and so forth) can enhance learning opportunities outside the classroom, and can be especially helpful to promote self-directed learning. 1 YouTube (www. youtube.com) was created in 2005...

Medical Education for YouTube Generation

There have been great changes in medical education environment during the 20th century due to advances in biological sciences, increasing demands from health services (Bleakley et al., 2011; Cooke et al., 2006), and in the past two decades dynamic development of information and communication technologies (ICT) (Masic et al., 2011). They have increased the efficiency of learning and promoted the...

YouTube, dentistry, and dental education.

The objective of this study was to systematically assess the informational value, intention, source, and bias of videos related to dentistry available on the video-sharing Internet platform YouTube. YouTube (www.youtube.com) was searched for videos related to dentistry, using the system-generated sorts "by relevance" and "most viewed" and two categories (All and Education). Each of the first th...

YouTube in medical education: a student's perspective

Y ouTube, a decade on from its inception, exceeding 1 billion users (1), has become the largest video-sharing platform on the Internet. With more than 300 hours of video uploaded every minute (1), generating millions of daily views, YouTube has succeeded in becoming a podium for all video sectors. With this expansion, a new division has emerged over the years: Education. YouTube is an extremely...