Using social media in medical education

Using Social Media in Medical Education
The SoMe waters may be murky but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Assumption: You understand Professionalism issues and are ready to move beyond them.
Neil Mehta, MBBS, MS, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine and
Director Education Technology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at
Case Western Reserve University

Outline

Quick review of some theories of learning and knowledge
(somewhat oversimplified for purpose of this presentation)
As you read these think how some of them apply to various Social Media tools that you are familiar with.

Behaviorism
The teaching machine – delivered programmed instruction
(from Wikipedia)
Learning is transmission of knowledge
Essentially a passive process for the learner.

Cognitivism
Memory systems are active organized processors of information

Constructivism
Learner actively constructs new concepts based upon current and past knowledge or experience
A personal endeavor to explain the real world with internalized concepts/rules/principles

Social Constructivism
Learning occurs when individuals engage socially with others (talk, activity) around shared tasks/problems

Social Constructionism
Learning is most effective when the learner’s experience includes constructing a meaningful object

Connectivism
Knowledge exists in the world rather than in the head of an individual!
Learning is a process of creating connections and developing a network
In Connectivismlearning is a property of the system, something that happens all the time, and is not therefore the subject of intentional activity
George Siemens and Stephen Downes

Social Media
Web 1.0 – static web pages – Flipping pages of an online book
Web 2.0
ReadWriteWeb
Social Media (As opposed to Print Media)

The Net Generation
"Why would I sit there and listen to a [teaching assistant] talking to 300 of us," Tapscott recalls him saying, "when I can go online with a real-time Peter Drucker?“
“All these kids that have grown up collaborating and thinking differently walk into a university and they're asked to sit there and passively listen to someone talking.“
Don Tapscot – NPR Talk of the Nation 7/14/2011

Blogs
Can be a rich discussion
(no wine though)
A reflective journal
But open to the world!

George Siemens’ Blog

Twitter
I ate breakfast
Now I am at work!

What is Twitter
140 character messages
You follow people – their messages show up on your stream
Others follow you
Can mention specific people using @Twitter_handle, reply to their posts
Can tag with content #topic
Done in Public space (can be pvt too)

Models for Twitter
Chats and journal clubs
Recent #meded chat about competency based education (facilitated by Dr. Ryan Madanick in USA)
Recent #Twitjc on use of check lists to improve patient safety (link to Dr. Anne Marie Cunningham’s blog post)
AtulGawande
Suzzette Woodard
Also used as case discussions - #micro140 (Dr. Nick Bennet= @peds_id_doc)

Blogs and YouTube for self-directed learning
From the Khan Academy

Hanging Out
Impromptu/serendipitous/planned
Public or private
Web chat with up to 10 users simultaneously
Can tape it and post discussion on YouTube to share
Newt Gingrich

Office Hours Anyone?

The Learning Cycle

Examples of how this works
A twitter discussion becomes a Blog post that is retweeted.
A blog post shared on G+ generates a discussion

Where is this going?
How Facebook saved my son’s life!
Slate article
Sermo
The iConsult App (on YouTube)

Conclusion
Our school and college students are comfortable in the Online space.
As they enter the medical profession, while they need to learn about professionalism, lets not scare them away from a potentially very useful and powerful tool for their learning and practice.
Our educators need to keep an open mind and experience this medium before passing judgement.

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Using social media in medical education

by Neil Mehta on Jul 15, 2011

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