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Presentation at the MEI2012 conference (Medical Education Informatics), April 06-07, 2012 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Transcript of Web 2.0 and Social Media in Medical Education
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
@medicine20
www.medicine20congress.com
