Abstract
Social media (SM) is a form of electronic communication through which users create online communities and interactive platforms to exchange information, ideas, messages, podcasts, videos, and other user-generated content. Emergency medicine (EM) has embraced the healthcare applications of SM at a rapid pace and continues to explore the potential benefit for education. Free Open Access Meducation has emerged from the ever-expanding collection of SM interactions and now represents a virtual platform for sharing educational media. This guidance document constitutes an expert consensus opinion for best practices in the use of SM in EM residency education. The goals are the following: 1) Recommend adoption of SM as a valuable graduate medical education (GME) tool, 2) Provide advocacy and support for SM as a GME tool, and 3) Recommend best practices of educational deliverables using SM. These guidelines are intended for EM educators and residency programs for the development and use of a program-specific SM presence for residency education, taking into account appropriate SM stewardship that adheres to institution-specific guidelines, content management, Accreditation Council for GME milestone requirements, and integration of SM in EM residency curriculum to enhance the learner’s experience. Additionally, potential obstacles to the uptake of SM as an educational modality are discussed with proposed solutions.
Highlights
Social media (SM) is a form of digital communication through which users create online communities using interactive platforms to exchange information, ideas, messages, podcasts, videos, and many other types of user-generated content
Members of the forum and other identified experts in SM who have been recognized in the field for their use of SM for education purposes used a modified Delphi technique, a discursive method based on an online discussion platform (Google Groups) curated and moderated by the chairperson of the committee
Technology barriers: Providing educational sessions to faculty and residents is strongly recommended to familiarize them with the technology
Summary
Social media (SM) is a form of digital communication through which users create online communities using interactive platforms to exchange information, ideas, messages, podcasts, videos, and many other types of user-generated content. SM use by EM residencies continues to grow rapidly with a near ubiquity in its use.[7,8] Opportunities exist to enhance the current EM curriculum both with traditional learning sessions such as didactics or simulation, or with asynchronous learning.[9] Learners are engaging with socialnetworking sites for educational purposes, and learner satisfaction is typically high with this modality.[10,11,12] SM allows learners to interact and collaborate with content generators outside the confines of physical space and time. SM helps generate discussion across institutions, allows for rapid, near-real-time peer review and exchange of ideas, increases the audience of a lecture or teaching curriculum, and can provide detailed analytics of viewership including information on the viewers’ location and time spent on the activity. The goals of this guideline statement are to focus on SM as a tool for residency education These guidelines are designed to provide support for EM residency programs in the development and use of program-specific SM presence for residency education. The scope of this document is to function as a foundation document for further development of more detailed content and location-specific guidelines and best practices
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