Social Media: Expanding Horizons for Health Professions Education
1. Social Media: Expanding Horizons
for Health Professions Education
Iris Thiele Isip Tan MD, MSc
Chief, Medical Informatics Unit
University of the Philippines
6. Directed question
based on facts
Open-ended question
based on concepts or ideas
Driving question
3 stacked river stones by unseenob,
http://www.freeimages.com/photo/663281
http://www.jetspost.com/eportfolio/pbl/driving_questions.htm
require research, investigation and reflection
call on a student’s previous knowledge
encourage multiple approaches to problem solving
7. Question mark by 7rains, http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1323680
How can health
informations systems
be sustainable
in developing
countries?
What
problems exist
for health information
systems in
developing countries?
What are health
information
systems?
DIRECTED
question
OPEN-ENDED
question
DRIVING
question
Week 4: Health Information Systems in Developing Countries
8. Watch
video
Driving question
Read
List of resources
on UVLe
Submit
assignment
Upload to UVLe
Blog
Tweet
Post
Reporting
in class
Learning Sequence HI 201: Health Informatics
9. New Competences for Learning
John Sandars, Education for Primary Care 2009;20:340–2
Enquiry
Production
Participation
Digital literacy
Person:question by cobrasoft, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1124847
10. Week 9: Personal Health Records
Enquiry
Choose an online PHR
service or app
Production
Create a
scoring system.
Participation
Sign up for an online PHR
service or try an app
Digital literacy
Write a blog post.
Examine privacy &
confidentiality agreement.
What features are considered critical or most useful
by users of personal health records?
Assignment: Sign up for a free trial of an online PHR service or
try using a mobile PHR app. Create a scoring system to evaluate
usefulness of personal health records and publish on your blog.
12. I blog by alamodestuff, https://flic.kr/p/7CxKN9
Positive digital
footprints
Communicating
with digital tools
Transparency
for parents & family
New ways of
thinking about
Web tools
Effective
digital
citizenship
5 Reasons Why Our Students are Writing Blogs
and Creating ePortfolios by Jenny Luca
http://plpnetwork.com/2011/08/26/5-reasons-why-our-
students-are-writing-blogs-and-creating-eportfolios/
ePortfolio
13. Ideal framework
of an interconnected
digital identity for a physician
Gill BC, Zampini AM, Mehta NB.
Urology 85(6);2015
15. Network Spheres by gerard70, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1008232
Connectivism
Knowledge is distributed
across a network of connections ...
learning is the ability to construct
and traverse those networks.
Stephen Downes (2007)
16. The instructor is
a network facilitator.
Deirdre Bonnycastle, Medical Education Blog (2007)
http://words.usask.ca/medicaleducation/2007/02/02/five-theories-about-learning/
Connectivism
17. Personal Learning
Network (PLN)
Informal learning network that
consists of people a learner
interacts with and derives
knowledge from in a personal
learning environment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Learning_Networks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefangmonster/352461415/
18. Personal Learning
Environment (PLE)
Tools, communities and
services that constitute the
individual educational platforms
that learners use to direct their
own learning and pursue
educational goals
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (2009) Wires in my hand by bury-osiol,
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/809036
19. PLEs can be perceived as both a
technology and a
pedagogical approach
that is student-designed around
each student’s goals or a learning
approach chosen by a student to
match his or her personal
learning style and pace.
Johnson et al (2011) The NMC Horizon Report
20. Learning on demand is becoming
a type of lifestyle in modern society.
McLoughlin C & Lee MJW (2007) Proceedings of
World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
Hypermedia and Telecommunications
21. Self-regulated learning
Zimmerman BJ (2000), Self-regulation:
Theory, research and applications.
Student’s ability to
independently and proactively
engage in self-motivating and
behavioral processes that
increase goal attainment
22. Framework for social media to support
Self-regulated learning
Dabbagh N & Kitsantas A. Internet and
Higher Education 2011
Phase 1
Forethought
Level 1
Personal
Information
Management
Use blogs and wikis
to create a PLE
Phase 2
Performance
Level 2
Social interaction & collaboration
Engage in basic sharing & collaborative activities
Phase 3
Self-reflection
Level 3
Information aggregation &
management
Synthesize and aggregate
information to reflect on overall
learning experience
23. Level 1
Personal Information Management
Use a blog as a journal to set learning goals
Level 2
Social interaction & collaboration
Enable blog comment feature to allow for
instructor and peer feedback
Level 3
Information aggregation &
management
Configure a blog to pull in
additional content
Dabbagh N & Kitsantas A. Internet and
Higher Education 2011
33. WHAT WOULD I DO IF?
I need a
clinical answer
In 2000
Try to find a colleague who
knows it
Mesko B. Cell Ther Transplant 2011
Now
Post a question
on Twitter
I want to hear a
patient’s story
about a specific
condition
In 2000
Try to find a patient
in my town
I want to be
up-to-date
In 2000
Go to the library
once a week
Now
Read blogs
Watch YouTube
Now
Use RSS and follow
hundreds of
journals
43. #HEALTHXPH:
HELLO TELEMEDICINE!
6 Feb 2016
T1
T2
T3
As a physician, nurse or other healthcare provider,
are you willing to hold consults with patients via
video? Why or why not?
Do you agree that telemedicine should be
employed only when a prior in-person relationship
exists between the patient and MD?
Do you agree with remote prescribing via a video
consultation? Why or why not?
http://www.endocrine-witch.net/2016/02/03/hello-telemedicine/
As a patient, are you willing to hold consults with physician,
nurse or other healthcare provider via video? Why or why not?
49. IRIS THIELE ISIP TAN MD, MSC
Director, UP Manila Interactive Learning Center
Chief, UP Medical Informatics Unit
Professor, UP College of Medicine
@endocrine_witch