FSU-Ft Pierce
Informatics: Social Networking and Medicine
At the conclusion, the participant should be able to:
1) DEFINE social media – what it is and what it isn’t; 2) IDENTIFY the (this week’s) major social media sites and apps and DESCRIBE their uses and users; 3) IDENTIFY medical student uses of social media and trends; 4) IDENTIFY medical applications of social media in use by clinicians;
5) IDENTIFY benefits for the use of social media to patients and healthcare professionals;
6) IDENTIFY barriers to the use of social media by physicians; 7) IDENTIFY potential pitfalls to the use of social media by physicians and means to avoid; 8) IDENTIFY guidelines and strategies to put use of social media into practice (or not).
Questions and answers will allow for audience participation.