Web 2.0 and Social Media

in Medical Education

Peter J. MurrayCEO, International Medical Informatics Association

(IMIA)

Disclaimer: views expressed are personal and should not be interpreted as an official IMIA view on any issue

Member: IMIA Education, Social Media, Open Source WGs

Content, curriculum, access, interaction

thoughts towards developing IMIA's strategic role in health and biomedical

informatics education

IMIA Education WG meeting and InfoLAC2008 Buenos Aires, Argentina – October 2008

Original 1999 – updated 2010 Methods of Information in Medicine

Free download http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME5119

Content √Curriculum √

Access ?Interaction ?

Are we educators - or educational technologists?

- or both?

- which should we beor should we focus on?

- which can/should social media address?

Web 2.0 / Social Media in Education

should be as contentand

as delivery mechanism

“Today’s students – represent the first generations to... have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones ....

Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games... games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives.”

Marc Prensky “Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants” (2001) http://www.marcprensky.com/

Web 2.0 / Social Media in Education

as delivery mechanism in education

some progress

Do you use this in your teaching?

Blogs

develop writing skills

reflective writing, practice

sharing ideas with others

Podcasts, etc.

content delivery

anytime, anywhere consumption

for things that bear repetition

RSS

share/collect content sources

filter content – manage the information overload

keep up-to-date

Microblogging (Twitter)

Presentation sharing/collaboration

Social bookmarking

Collaborative writing/editing

Web 2.0 / Social Media in Education:

how much progress in includingas course content?

Learning (Styles) 2.0:Digital, Social, and Always On

“We now accept the fact that learningis a lifelong process

of keeping abreast of change.

And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”

Peter Drucker

23 years old; final year medical student

Debrecan, Hungary

main interests:personalised genetics/genomicssocial media in health/medicine

(2008)

Social media is changing how medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered.

Patients, doctors, communication or even time management, everything is changing, except one

thing: medical education.

We need a revolution!

(Mesko, 2012 – scienceroll.com)

thecourse.webicina.com

The need for research

… do we have evidence for the value of social media in education?

… with the rapid evolution of technology, what are the best research methods?

… what effects do social media have relative to health?

Possible research areas

… how do we develop/adapt existing research methods to explore social media healthcare applications for academic research?

… researching collaboration tools and virtual organisations for researchers

… exploring the implications (e.g. in human factors engineering, or open source software) of the intersection of health and informatics with social media

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