Visual Media in Medical Education

Advancing social media in medical education.

Go Home, Med Student: Comics as Visual Media for Students' Traumatic Medical Education Experiences.

A comic created by a medical student allows the reader to share the student's own unique perception of the medical education experience. Through the process of comic creation, medical students have opportunities to gain insight into how their relationships with patients and supervising physicians have shaped the physician they will become. The comic itself can be a safe space for expression and...

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

Social media in medical education: a new pedagogical paradigm?

Social media is now a part of modern life. Internet based tools allow millions to keep in touch with each other and anyone to create, and publish content instantly. Individuals enjoy the fun, and rely on the functionality of social media in their daily lives. But the real power of social media is the impact of bringing together clusters of like-minded people to engage in real-time, on-line dial...

Leveraging Social Media to Promote Evidence-Based Continuing Medical Education

IMPORTANCE New dissemination methods are needed to engage physicians in evidence-based continuing medical education (CME). OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of social media in engaging physicians in non-industry-sponsored CME. DESIGN We tested the effect of different media platforms (e-mail, Facebook, paid Facebook and Twitter), CME topics, and different "hooks" (e.g., Q&A, clinical pe...