Social Media in Medical Education

How Healthcare can use SM: (Meaningful use of Social Media by Physicians - Slides from Medicine… - Slide 31)
     to treat
     to teach
     to learn

What about privacy/legality/Professional guidelines?

•      Privacy Legislation in Canada
•      BCMA Privacy Toolkit
•      PIPEDA Awareness
•      CMA Rules of Engagment for Social Media

12 word SM Policy

Don’t Lie, Don’t Pry
Don’t Steal, Don’t Reveal
Don’t Cheat, Can’t Delete

(From this article by Faris Tamimi, Medical Director of Social Media for the Mayo Clinic)

     For a glimpse at an organizations approach to SM see the Mayo Clinic's Center for Social Media

Personal Learning Network (or Environment)/Personal Knowledge Management

• PLE Primer from Academic Life in EM (by Javier Benitez, @jvrbntz)
• Starting a PLN (Once A Teacher blog)
• 5 Ways to Start your PLN (The Innovative Educator blog)
• Personal Learning Environments and the revolution of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development  (from Ismael Peña-López at the ICTlogy blog)
• Personal Learning Networks (Wikipedia)
• Knowledge Management (Wikipedia)
• Cynefin - Knowledge Management Framework (Wikipedia)
• A Leader's Framework for Decision Making (PDF)

Journals

     Has Traditional Media in Medicine (ie Journals) missed the roller coaster? by Andrew Buck (@edexam) in Emergency Medicine Australia
     Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.
     Journals on SM (examples):

• Annals of Emergency Medicine - Twitter, Facebook
• Academic Emergency Medicine - SAEM Twitter, SAEM Facebook
• Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine - CAEP Twitter, CAEP Facebook
• Emergency Medicine Australia - Twitter,
• Emergency Medicine Journal (BMJ) - Twitter, Facebook
• BMJ - Twitter, Facebook
• NEJM - Twitter, Facebook
• JAMA - Twitter, Facebook
• Lancet - Twitter, Facebook
• CMAJ - Twitter, Facebook (must be logged in to view)
• Journal Watch - Twitter, Facebook
• BioMed Central - Twitter, Facebook
• OpenMedicine - Twitter, Facebook
• PLOS Medicine - Twitter, Facebook (PLOS.org not just Medicine)

Why?

• Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine (Annals of EM)
• Mired in MedEd: Social Media for Physicians
• Wishful thinking in medical education: Clinical learning in the open: the strengths of social media.

Tools

Blogs

• Blogger
• Wordpress
• Tumblr
• Top 10 Blogging Platforms (via Six Revisions)

RSS

• Google Reader (Web)
• Reeder (Mac, iOS)
• NetNewsWire (Mac, iOS)
• FeedDemon (Windows)
• Snarfer (Windows)
• FeedReader (Web, Windows)
• Feedly (iOS, Android, Kindle)

Podcasts

• iTunes
• Podcast app (iOS)
• Instacast (iPhone, iPad)
• Top 5 Podcast Apps for Android (via Mashable)
• Libsyn (for Consumption and Creation)

Videos

• YouTube (iOS app)
• Vimeo (iOS app)

Wikis

• MediaWiki
• Wikispaces

Social Media Platforms

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Identi.ca
• Ning

Filters

• Google
• Wikipedia (if you want to help with the Wikipedia Medicine Project, contact UBC DEM Faculty James Heilman)
• PubMed (Scopus, WebOfScience, CINAHL)

FOAM - Free Open Access Meducation (#FOAMed)

        EMGoogle – search engine designed to interrogate emergency medicine and critical care (EMCC)  blogs (via @RaineDoc)
        FOAMEM RSS – Syndicated feed aggregator across all EMCC blogs (via @EMChatter)

Top 5s

• Life in the Fast Lane
• St Emlyns
• the NNT
• iTeachEM
• EM:RAP

Podcasts

• EMCRIT
• Practical Evidence
• ERCast
• Free Emerg Talks
• UltrasoundPodcast.com

Apps

• Evernote/Simplenote
• Tweetbot
• Reeder
• Instapaper/Pocket
• Google Translate
• Papers (Desktop)

Medical Apps

• Medscape(iOS/Android)/Pepid(iOS/Android)/ePocrates(iOS/Android)
• Dragon Medical
• ECG Guide
• Netter Flashcards
• Basics of Emergency Medicine (EMRA)