FSU-Tallahassee

Objectives: Attendees should be able to: •Define social media – what it is and what it isn’t •Identify the (this week’s) major social media sites and apps and describe their uses and users •Identify medical student uses of social media and trends •Identify medical applications of social media in use by clinicians •Identify benefits for the use of social media to patients and healthcare professionals •Identify barriers to the use of social media by physicians •Identify potential pitfalls to the use of social media by physicians and means to avoid •Identify guidelines and strategies to put use of social media into practice (or not)