This post is not directly related to Social Media or technology, but it is very thought-provoking. Teaching is a difficult task. Teaching doctors and medical students may sometimes be even more challenging. How can educators make sure they effectively engage their audience? I like Mr Smith's honest thoughts on his experience. I like this post, simple and yet tought provoking. Organising a Social Media workshop is not an easy task, giving participants what they expect is a challenge... I had direct experience last year at AMEE. I think the concept of "watch and think" and "feel and do" is what facilitators should not forget. Talking and reflecting on personal experiences is fine, but it shouldn't take more than the 10% of the whole workshop... However, showcase and reflect on what has been produced during the workshop is essential! 
Turning a medical student into a doctor takes a whole lot of knowledge.
Thursday 23rd February 2012 JISC CETIS Conference 2012Social Network AnalyticsAmber ThomasJISC Programme Managerhttp://www.s...
Last week the existence of a virtual university with its address on Twitter came to my knowledge. Svenska Twitteruniversitetet or The Swedish Twitter University as it is also named. The idea of a... Mayo Clinic's first-ever Social Media Residency took place October 20-21, 2011. At the end of the first day, the attendees went out on a video interview assignment. 
Students in our medical school have since 2009 "adopted" a village in rural Peru. They go there for a month at a time accompanied by faculty members to provide various health services. 
Increasingly there's guidance being issued by the various regulators - General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council etc - on how health and social care professionals should behave on social networking sites... 
The recent increase in the number of online medical resources has raised important questions about content curation on the World Wide Web and the importance of time management tools and applications used in medicine and healthcare. 
The growing gap between teaching practice and learning practice is acute and growing. Institutional teaching, especially in Universities is hanging on to the pedagogic fossil that is the lecture. The word pedagogy has become a hollow appeal for traditional lectures, classroom teaching and summative assessment. The true driver for positive, pedagogic change is the internet. 
Critical thinking has been floating around the world of education for years. However, it has often been treated as an add-on to the curriculum rather a core aspect of learning. In the past ten to fifteen years this has begun to change as schools attend more and more to developing students' habits of mind, thinking disposition, and 21st century skills 
It’s no exaggeration to say that the practice of social media has woven itself into the fabric of modern life so intrinsically that it is the connection between the digital and physical worlds for hundreds of millions of people around the world…social media is here…so let us learn how to dance with it… |
Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it’s become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown. 
"Medical education and medical practice at all levels, already online in so many ways, can no longer remain aloof from social media." 
This is a very important theme for medical education; the number of available online resources is increasing and particular attention needs to be given when sharing and re-using content. "The trend for sharing and the increase in online content places ever greater importance on our networks, the people in them and the content that flows through them. Anything that ensures we keep the credit for our work as it moves through these networks can only be a benefit." 
On the 31st of October 2011, the General Medical Council in the UK launched a consultation to produce guidelines for doctors and healthcare professionals when using social media... 
"I started using Twitter as a way to waste time when I needed a break from studying. Then something crazy happened. Twitter transformed from a major distraction to a valuable study tool." The social media do not have a good rating systems for who provides authentic balanced information. People tend to be rated based on # of followers, # of shares/retweets/mentions thus again perpetuating the need for sensationalizing the news... 
The point of this small post is to; 
The author of recent social media guidance for the Nursing and Midwifery Council says that NHS line managers need to be able to better respond to abuse by staff... This slides wer presented at the Medicine 2.0 conference at Stanford University on 09.17.11 and include data that was collected as part of a research collaborat... 
An exploration of the fundamental ethos of social media in medical education -- bringing educators and learners together, and turning passive learners into active listeners |
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