Policing YouTube: Medical Students, Social Media and Digita Identity
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Policing YouTube: Medical Students, Social Media and Digital Identity Dr Anne Marie Cunningham Cardiff University Department of Primary care and Public Health
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These few slides were used to provoke discussion amongst a small group interested in the education of health care professionals in Cardiff University. Here is a blog post about the same topic: http://wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-more-important-behaving-badly.html And here is a resource from the ThisIsMe project by Reading University which provides some good starting points for thinkingabout digital identity with students in the health professions: http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_67/8312000/8312332/1/print/8312332.pdf
Transcript of Policing YouTube: Medical Students, Social Media and Digita Identity
Policing YouTube: Medical Students, Social Media and Digital
Identity
Dr Anne Marie CunninghamCardiff University
Department of Primary care and Public Health
FacebookDoctors and nurses to be disciplined
They were ‘let off’
Patient confidentiality
Surgery Mental Health
FacebookRisks and benefits of social networks?Inappropriate relationships?
Even heroes get it wrong.
Chretien KC, Greysen SR, Chretien JP, Kind T (2009).
Method •130 med schools in US•Deans of Student Affairs
Results •60% response (78)•47/78 reported unprofessional conduct
Conclusion •Few have policies•?Need policies
Online posting of unprofessional content by medical students. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 302 (12), 1309-15
Types of Misconduct
Violation of patient confidenti
ality (6)
Student use of profanity (22)
Sexually suggest
ive materia
l (16)
Frankly discriminat
ory language
(19)
Depiction of intoxication (17)
Farnan JM, Paro JA, Higa JT, Reddy ST, Humphrey HJ, Arora VM (2009)
• First year show• Parody of dissection• Approved by members of
faculty• Uploaded to YouTube• Senior student complained• Video removed• Students complain• Med school will review any
further content uploaded
Commentary: The relationship status of digital media and professionalism: it's complicated. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 84 (11), 1479-81
Relevant literature
• Doctor-patient relationship• Identity formation• Professionalism
Discussion• OK in private but not in
public?• Transparency? Seeing who
we really are?• Upholding the profession?• ‘Hidden curriculum’- should
we address?• Collapse of context?• Guidance?
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mscolly/33154553/
