Medical professionalism videos on YouTube: Content exploration and appraisal of user engagement
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BACKGROUND: Social media has become the fastest growing platform for sharing and retrieving information and knowledge, and YouTube is one of the most popular and growing sources of health and educational information video-sharing website. But, videos on this open platform are not peer-assessed, therefore, the accessible data should be adequately assessed. Till date, no exploration and analysis for assessing the credibility and usefulness of Medical professionalism videos available on YouTube are conducted. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the video sources, contents and quality of YouTube videos about the topic of medical professionalism. METHODS: A systematic search was accomplished on YouTube videos during the period between March 1, 2020 and March 27, 2020. The phrases as significant words used throughout YouTube web search were 'Professionalism in Medical Education', Professionalism in medicine', 'Professionalism of medical students', 'Professionalism in healthcare'. 'Teaching professionalism', 'Attributes of professionalism'. The basic information collected for each video included author's/publisher's name, total number of watchers, likes, dislikes and positive and undesirable remarks. The videos were categorized into educationally useful and useless established on the content, correctness of the knowledge and the advices. Different variables were measured and correlated for the data analysis.YouTube website was searched the using keywords 'Professionalism in Medical Education', Professionalism in medicine', 'Professionalism of medical students', 'Professionalism in healthcare'. 'Teaching professionalism', and 'Attributes of professionalism'. RESULTS: After 2 rounds of screening by the subject experts and critical analysis of all the 137 YouTube videos, only 41 (29.92%) were identified as pertinent to the subject matter, i.e., educational type. After on expert viewing these 41 videos established upon our pre-set inclusion/exclusion criteria, only 17 (41.46%) videos were found to be academically valuable in nature. CONCLUSION: Medical professionalism multimedia videos uploaded by the healthcare specialists or organizations on YouTube provided reliable information for medical students, healthcare workers and other professional. We conclude that YouTube is a leading and free online source of videos meant for students or other healthcare workers yet the viewers need to be aware of the source prior to using it for training learning.
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Positive professional behaviors and attitudes regarding patient education and health promotion were reported.
“Positive professional behaviors and attitudes regarding patient education and health promotion were also reported [34,37,75,97,106].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [37]
The Discussion reports that educationally useful videos depicting doctors’ professional behavior can impart knowledge and skills to learners. It does not report positive professional behaviors or attitudes specifically concerning patient education or health promotion; searches for those terms found no such passage. The indexed passages provide section labels but no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.76)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredMost included studies (n=77) had clear ethical statements within the paper either stating ethical board approval or exemption, and 11 studies did not explicitly report an ethical statement.
“Most studies included (n=77) had clear ethical statements within the paper either stating ethical board approval or exemption, and 11 studies did not explicitly report an ethical statement [37-39,53,54,72,74,90,105,108,117].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [37]
Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube were specifically targeted social media/social networking sites in 7 studies.
“Twitter [38,44,80,91,110], Instagram [101], and YouTube [37] were specifically targeted SM/SNSs in 7 studies.”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [37]
Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube were specifically targeted social media or social networking sites in 7 studies.
“Twitter [38,44,80,91,110], Instagram [101], and YouTube [37] were specifically targeted SM/SNSs in 7 studies.”
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A total of 8 studies were conducted in several countries simultaneously.
“A total of 8 studies were conducted in several countries simultaneously [32-39].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [37]
The Results describe an analysis of 17 YouTube videos, not a set of eight studies. The Methods and Results passages do not say where multiple studies were conducted or whether they took place simultaneously; searches for multicountry and geographic details did not establish the claim. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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- Authors
- Ahmad, T., Sattar, K., & Akram, A.
- Affiliations
- NIMS University (IN)
- Universiti Sains Malaysia (MY)
- King Saud University (SA)
- Corresponding author
- Sattar, Kamran
- Venue
- Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2287-2292
- ISSN
- 1319-562X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7451591
- OpenAlex
- W3034577501
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 2.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Keywords
- medical professionalism, YouTube videos, social media, user engagement, medical education, online health information, medical students
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