tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59163187181235593.post8451162116704904833..comments2023-12-17T20:27:48.712-08:00Comments on Mired in MedEd: Social Media in Academic MedicineAlex Djuricichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552747135487262343noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59163187181235593.post-81653210016715962072013-01-01T17:39:29.334-08:002013-01-01T17:39:29.334-08:00Thank you, Jimmy, for your kind words. Happy New ...Thank you, Jimmy, for your kind words. Happy New Year to you and yours.<br />AlexAlex Djuricichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07552747135487262343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59163187181235593.post-11319673716192902472012-12-10T03:38:43.142-08:002012-12-10T03:38:43.142-08:00I agree w/ Dean Jenkins on this - it's as if w...I agree w/ Dean Jenkins on this - it's as if we're staying away from social media simply because it's being used to keep up on Bieber's life. While that may be true, it's also a medium that's coming into its own.<br /><br />Marshall McLuhan may have said the medium is the message, but that may not always be the case. The message can also be the message.<br /><br />I'm the Director of Communications for a large Department of Medicine in a large academic medical center. We're moving in a big way toward adopting social media tools to communicate, first, with residents and younger, and, as they move their ways through the system, these social media tools will catch on.<br /><br />Good luck to us all. Let's be careful out there, but do right for academic medicine.Jackson Vernonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439105252315102329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59163187181235593.post-47780433692981415252012-02-19T09:39:08.552-08:002012-02-19T09:39:08.552-08:00Wonderfully said. Some academics are not sold on ...Wonderfully said. Some academics are not sold on this "value" until they see it in mainstream journals. I would not fall into that category, yet realize that getting such papers out there are critical to making it "mainstream".Alex Djuricichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07552747135487262343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59163187181235593.post-77936231918241364632012-02-19T09:37:42.680-08:002012-02-19T09:37:42.680-08:00Thanks for your comments. Great points!
I totally...Thanks for your comments. Great points!<br />I totally agree with teaching students to use twitter and blogs. Some students would find it disingenuous if a faculty teaches about using SoMe but does not personally use SoMe.Alex Djuricichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07552747135487262343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59163187181235593.post-12752040562115727462012-02-18T13:59:25.231-08:002012-02-18T13:59:25.231-08:00Interesting post.
You're certainly not wastin...Interesting post.<br /><br />You're certainly not wasting your time with this social media stuff! I think the focus of the debate should be on the value of the communication and not on the particular medium itself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11768923929904631024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59163187181235593.post-83877007471657527582012-02-17T19:13:46.313-08:002012-02-17T19:13:46.313-08:00I think, in addition to the concerns of profession...I think, in addition to the concerns of professionalism, social media has not become mainstream in medical educatin because<br />1) Students primarily use Facebook as their social media platform of choice and see the main purpose of Facebook to be personal/non-professional. <br />2) Students do not use Twitter because they view it as a way to see what Justin Bieber and Ashton Kucher are up to. Many faculty feel this was as well.<br />Thus, if we in medical education see social medica (twitter and blogs in particular) as a valuable tool in medical education, we are going to have to teach our students, residents and colleagues how to use these in a way that is good for education, valuable to patients, and useful for scientific advancement.<br />I agree that social media is indeed a form of scholarship (and thus useful for promotion and tenure), but we would need to establish some criteria for what constitues scholarship in social media.Dr. Matthew Mintzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058182168282244996noreply@blogger.com