Social Media Impact: Utility of Reflective Approach in the Practice of Surgery
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Social media is rapidly being incorporated into medical education. We created a small group, reflective practice sessions by integrating specific medical cases to improve awareness about professionalism on social media. Medical scenarios were generated for reflective practice sessions on social media professionalism. Anonymous pre/post-session surveys evaluated residents' use of social media and gathered their opinions on the session. Thirty-eight of 48 (79 %) residents replied to the presession survey with 50 % (19/38) reporting daily digital media use, 76 % (29/38) witnessed unprofessional postings on social media, and 21 % (8/38) posted unprofessional content themselves. Of the 79 % (30/38) residents who attended the session, 74 % (28/38) completed the post-session survey. Residents reported the session added to the longevity of their professional career 4.11, 95 % CI (3.89-4.36). As a result of the session, they were more conscious of using the social media more professionally 3.47, 95 % CI (2.88-3.96) and would be proactive in protecting patient privacy and confidentiality on social media sites 3.96, 95 % CI (3.50-4.37). In summary, reflective practice-based sessions regarding the impact of social media on professionalism in surgery was well favored by the residents. The majority agreed that it had important implications for the longevity of their professional career. Participants reported having an increased awareness to protect patient privacy and utilize social media more professionally.
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Lower rates of social media use were seen in practicing health care professionals, physicians of different specialties, and program directors or faculty, mostly ranging from 50% to 80%.
“Lower rates of use were seen in practicing HCPs, physicians of different specialties, and program directors (PDs) or faculty, mostly ranging from 50% to 80% [35,39,74,80,83,85,86,88,89,91,96,105,106,108,110,113,114].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [89]
The Results (page not provided) report that 50% of surveyed surgery residents used social media daily, which falls within the claimed range. The paper does not report comparable use rates for practicing professionals across specialties or for program directors and faculty; it also measures daily use rather than use generally. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredParticipants reported having an increased awareness to protect patient privacy and use social media more professionally.
“Participants reported having an increased awareness to protect patient privacy and use SM more professionally [89].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [89]
In Mohiuddin et al's study, reflective practice-based sessions regarding the impact of social media on professionalism in surgery were well favored by residents.
“Similar findings were presented in Mohiuddin et al’s [89] study where reflective practice-based sessions regarding the impact of SM on professionalism in surgery were well favored by the residents.”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [89]
In 3 studies assessing effectiveness of educational sessions on residents' perception of e-professionalism, positive impact was determined.
“In 3 studies that assessed the effectiveness of educational sessions on residents’ perception of e-professionalism [81,89,103], the positive impact was also determined.”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [89]
Effectiveness of educational interventions about e-professionalism or impact of existing social media policies has been recognized in this review, since numerous studies explored educational interventions for promoting e-professionalism.
“Effectiveness of educational interventions about e-professionalism or impact of existing SM policies has been recognized in this review, since numerous studies explored educational interventions for promoting e-professionalism [46,48,52,54,55,60,63,81,89,103].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [89]
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- Authors
- Mohiuddin, Z., Shahid, H., & Shuaib, W.
- Corresponding author
- Shuaib, Waqas
- ORCID
- Shuaib, Waqas
- Venue
- Indian Journal of Surgery
- Published
- 2014-04-27
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- S3
- Pages
- 893-898
- ISSN
- 0972-2068 (ISSN-L)
- 0973-9793
- PMC
- PMC4775557
- OpenAlex
- W2083231172
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 0.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Indian Journal of Surgery (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- social media, professionalism, reflective practice, surgical residents, medical education, patient privacy, confidentiality
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