On being public…how social media reshapes professional identity.
Dr. Anne Marie Cunningham@amcunningham
Primary Care and Public HealthCardiff University
Who am I?
Where am I from?
“determined not to be one of the sheep”
A ONE MINUTE SUMMARY OF MEDICAL EDUCATION
100+ years of criticism
Science poorly
integrated
Overfull curricul
um
Too many facts
40+ years of innovation?
PBL
CBL
?
Is medical education a process of…?
inFORMationtransFORMation
Robert Kegan (2009). What "Form" Transforms? : A Constructive-Developmental Approach to Transformative Learning. In Knud Illeris (ed.), Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning Theorists -- In Their Own Words. Routledge.
MY STORY
My complex professional identity
Practitioner
Educator
Researcher
Medical education as ‘practice’
isolation
My first blog post
“I want to link up with other people in medical and health sciences education so that we can learn together”
My new network
Sarah Stewart
NZ
Deirdre Bonnycastle
Canada
Natalie Lafferty
Scotland
Tools (and more tools)
Supporting Scholarship in Medical Education:
The role of social media and networks
Dr Anne Marie CunninghamCardiff University
ASME Summer 2009
Paradigm shift in scholarly communication in medical education
How will my skills and knowledge of the benefits of social media and networks influence my practice as a doctor?
Techno-evangelist? Not me.
The myth of information overload…
• Codified• Can be filtered• Searchable
Generic, scientific
• Tacit• If codified- poorly presented• NOT EASY TO FIND
Local, practical
Identity
AnonymityPower
Control
Trust
Access
Balancing Closed Openness
Learning
Sharing
Risk
Privacy
Safe
Forms of professional identity?
• Socialized
3rd order
• Self-authoring
4th order • Self-transforming
5th order
Robert Kegan (2009). What "Form" Transforms? : A Constructive-Developmental Approach to Transformative Learning. In Knud Illeris (ed.), Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning Theorists -- In Their Own Words. Routledge.
Harvard health expert calls Facebook 'Wild West‘
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20021519-247.html
New Frontier
A twitter exchange
“could @amcunningham answer me a quick question please? just need a definition of something medical”
“go ahead... I can point you in right direction for good definitions:)”
“@amcunningham thanks can you just tell me what is meant by distant metastases please the emphasis being on the' distant'”
Forms of professional identity?
• Socialized
3rd order
• Self-authoring
4th order • Self-transforming
5th order
Robert Kegan (2009). What "Form" Transforms? : A Constructive-Developmental Approach to Transformative Learning. In Knud Illeris (ed.), Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning Theorists -- In Their Own Words. Routledge.
Norwegian medical student’s definition of professionalism:
“To be who the patient needs you to be”
AMEE, 2011
“I think it shows your desire to embrace new ideas/technologies and learn from others regardless of whether they are students, doctors, patients or other health care professionals. (Multidisciplinary learning at its best). Also shows a willingness to adopt new teaching methods- which may involve use of trial and error, which in this case is very good.”
“you are your information”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/4324902924/
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