Abstract
Covid-19 pandemic brought many changes in our lives and lead us to find new ways of didactic teaching. Social distancing has forced us to create new methods of learning. Social media use is pervasive. It is not just a means to connect with others, engage with news content, share information, and provide entertainment; it is also a platform to learn. The use of social media in medical education has increased with trainees, practitioners, and educators adopting these communication tools to facilitate learning, practice improvement, and knowledge translation [1]. Resident doctors at a University-affiliated hospital started a project of interpreting EKG using "WhatsApp" to provide an on-demand and dynamic platform to residents where they can ask questions about EKGs and collaborate to learn from peers and experts. The experience revealed that residents could participate in this learning exercise at their leisure while not constrained by their patient-care requirements. While social media cannot replace traditional teaching, it can be used as a supplemental tool to empower the students to get the skills they need to succeed. Such experiments are successful with Twitter, YouTube and other platforms also. In recent times COVID forced us to use distance learning using Zoom, WebEx or similar platforms.
Highlights
Use of Social media is ubiquitous [2]
In (Table 1), we have summarized the differences between the uses of traditional methods vs. social media as an educational tool
Social media offers a powerful solution to the limitations of traditional teaching methods
Summary
Use of Social media is ubiquitous [2]. The onset of the novel coronavirus disease (2019), more commonly known as COVID-19, has drastically changed the world. Schools of all levels have canceled in-person classes, including primary, secondary, and tertiary schools, affecting the learning environments of over 1.5 billion students [4]. These closures have increased the importance of implementing new educational technologies and utilizing digital learning [4]. Onlinelearning has been shown to be as effective, if not more, than For these reasons, many medical schools have begun to integrate many forms of online learning in their curriculum. Several more attending started similar chat for question of the day, board review etc
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