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Online professionalism and the mirror of social media.
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The rise of social media--content created by Internet users and hosted by popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia, and blogs--has brought several new hazards for medical professionalism. First, many physicians may find applying principles for medical professionalism to the online environment challenging in certain contexts. Second, physicians may not consider the potential impact of their online content on their patients and the public. Third, a momentary lapse in judgment by an individual physician to create unprofessional content online can reflect poorly on the entire profession. To overcome these challenges, we encourage individual physicians to realize that as they "tread" through the World Wide Web, they leave behind a "footprint" that may have unintended negative consequences for them and for the profession at large. We also recommend that institutions take a proactive approach to engage users of social media in setting consensus-based standards for "online professionalism." Finally, given that professionalism encompasses more than the avoidance of negative behaviors, we conclude with examples of more positive applications for this technology. Much like a mirror, social media can reflect the best and worst aspects of the content placed before it for all to see.
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“Patient privacy breaches can cause much greater harm when occurring online than when face-to-face given the potential wide reach of social media and the permanency of digital information.36”
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“the academic literature replete with admonishments of how SM are dangerously breeching the old “boundary markers” of medicine: enabling all manner of distasteful content to be publically posted by medical students, residents, and other healthcare providers,7,14–17”
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“Professionals, not limited to physicians, have had their professional character judged on the basis of the way they represent themselves online; 36 to some extent, physicians will be viewed in their professional role whenever they are in public, including when using social media.37”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Greysen, S. R., Kind, T., & Chretien, K. C.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Children's National (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Greysen, S. Ryan
- Venue
- Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2010-07-15
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1227-1229
- ISSN
- 0884-8734 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-1497
- PMC
- PMC2947638
- OpenAlex
- W2163962302
- Cited by
- 323
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 36 · 2012: 26
- FWCI
- 26.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of General Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovations in Medical Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, Medicine and Society
- Keywords
- medical professionalism, social media, online professionalism, professional conduct, physician-patient relationship, professional reputation
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Online Systems, Physician-Patient Relations, Physicians, Social Behavior, Internet
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