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

1. Policing YouTube:Medical Students, Social Media and Digital Identity Dr Anne Marie Cunningham Cardiff University Department of Primary care and Public Health

2. Facebook Doctors and nurses to be disciplined

3. They were ‘let off’

4. Patient confidentiality Surgery Mental Health

5. Facebook Risks and benefits of social networks? Inappropriate relationships?

6. Even heroes get it wrong.

7. Chretien KC, Greysen SR, Chretien JP, Kind T (2009). Online posting of unprofessional content by medical students. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 302 (12), 1309-15

8. Types of Misconduct

9. 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

10. Relevant literature Doctor-patient relationship Identity formation Professionalism

11. 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/