This document outlines a presentation on using social media as a teaching tool in medical residency programs. It discusses mapping one's own web engagement and sharing the map. Several case studies of social media use are presented and analyzed. The document encourages attendees to think about their audience, where they are located online, how to create and share content, and how to curate, comment and facilitate personal learning networks through social media. Potential pitfalls of social media use are also acknowledged. The presenter provides his Twitter handle and email for further contact.
Using Social Media (SoME) as a Teaching Tool in Your Residency Program
1. Using Social
Media (SoME) as
a Teaching Tool in
Your Residency
Program
Bob Connelly, MD, MBA
Queen’s University
@bob_connelly #DalSoME
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4. Whether you like it or not, your
professional image will likely end up
on the Internet.
— Brian Secemsky
From LeadDoc
5. By taking this bull by its horns and
integrating yourself online in
settings, such as Twitter, you take
advantage of these virtual
communities instead of finding them
useless or detrimental to your work.
— Brian Secemsky
From LeadDoc
7. Outline
1310 - 1325 Activity 1 - Mapping your web engagement
1325 - 1345 Sharing your map
1345 - 1400 Activity 2 - Case Studies in SoME
1400 - 1415 Debriefing the cases
1415 - 1430 Taking the next step
25. We know that published evidence
does not translate into practice until
people start talking about it and
sharing practical examples.
Social networking tools...can play a
vital role in this socialising process.
—Michael Wright,
Chief Executive of NES