Skip to content

Posts from the ‘Medical education’ Category

Aug 16

Crowdsource a Medical Challenge: New Feature of The Social MEDia Course

The Social MEDia Course, a series of digital lectures about medicine and social media with tests and gamification, has been a success story since its launch this April and based on the requests from users, we are now happy to introduce new, community-driven features. The reason? Because we believe we can solve problems by learning together.

1) Submit a Question for the Tests!

Users have been sending us amazingly creative questions for the tests which you can take after finishing a lecture, therefore we thought we should let them submit their own questions and let the community decide which questions are suitable for being added to the database of questions. This way the tests will become even more challenging.

2) Crowdsource a Challenge!

We believe challenges related to the medical use of social media can be solved together. If you want to launch a Youtube channel for your practice or start a Twitter account for medical purposes, but do not know how, let’s work it out together as a learning community. Submit the challenge you have to face while using social media for medical purposes and let the community find a solution for that.

We hope you will like these features so then we can prove that learning together is the best solution even in social media and medicine.

As we are in beta version now, we cannot wait to hear your feedback!

Aug 6

4 Comments

Health Literacy is The Missing Link in Patient-Physician Communication: Slideshow

I have to totally agree with the title of this slideshow. I’ve been working on including digital literacy (not health literacy though) in the medical curriculum for years through The Social MEDia Course. Click on the image below to access the slideshow.

 

Jul 29

2 Comments

How to be better at searching online?

Do you want to become better at searching online? The advice I give to my students is that it works just like with other skills: You need to practice more and more. The best way is to do this in an organized manner and that’s what “A Google A Day“, a new game on Google+ provides.

It asks you special questions in many topics and you have to find the solution through online search. It will give you hints or even show you the right search terms.

You can also check the Google Story prezi with post-test in The Social MEDia Course.

Jul 28

The Social MEDia Course: Your Feedback is Needed!

The Social MEDia Course was launched 3 months ago and over 600 students are using it day by day. 4 students even managed to pass all the tests and achieve the “The Ultimate Expert” badge.

Please fill in this short questionnaire in order to help us constantly improve the course! We need Your feedback!

By the way, new features are going to be announced next week!

Jul 26

1 Comment

Free Open-Access Meducation: Video

Dr Mike Cadogan, fellow blogger at Life in the Fast Lane and member of the Webicina Advisory Board, had a great speech at International Conference on Emergency Medicine 2012 about the basics of behind Free Open-Access Meducation.

Jun 18

4 Comments

The Social MEDia Course: The First Graduate

I designed and launched The Social MEDia Course for those medical students and professionals who would like to know more about e-patients, social media-related issues and lifehacks for their professional lives. Over 500 users have been working on the lectures, doing the tests and we had to wait 6 weeks to find the first one who could pass all the tests and achieve the “The Ultimate Expert” badge. I had a pleasure to do an interview with Miguel Angel Mayer.

  • Why did you decide to take all the tests? Do you have any experience with social media?

After seeing two of the courses I saw that the content and the information provided were very interesting and I decided to go on with all the courses and thought why not take all the tests to check my level. My experience with social media is wide and varied because many years ago, in 2007, I was very interested in these issues and I introduced Family Doctors in Web 2.0 tools and services for the first time here. Since then I have been giving conferences and introducing the use of Web 2.0 tools even in the Medical School since 2008.

See the rest of the interview on the blog of The Social MEDia Course.

Here is his certificate which he received in the original PDF format:

Jun 16

2 Comments

Why we need to include digital literacy in medical education

I’ve been working on including digital literacy in medical curriculum for long years now. It’s not the fault of medical professionals if they don’t know how to deal with e-patients as they have never been trained to acquire such skills. Here is one perfect example underscoring the notion I just described. An excerpt from one of my recent Twitter discussions.

Here is the e-patient course I mentioned to him.

May 5

Using social media personally, not professionally

I just came across a very interesting article about physicians using social media for personal reasons, not professional ones.

Physicians are, for the most part, staying away from social media interaction with patients, HealthLeaders Media reported.

Only 15 percent use Facebook in their work life, according to data from QuantiaMD. About 8 percent read blogs, 3 percent use Twitter and 3 percent get involved in patient communities.

I got similar results when I asked my medical students before and after my course about the purposes they use social media for and it seems they are digital, they are mobile, they are active in social media but for clearly personal reasons, not professional ones.

Believe me, that’s going to cause them problems later in their career, so at least we have to teach them how to use it properly and have to show them the ways they can leverage its power professionally.

Here is the first step!

May 3

How Social Media Can Revolutionize Medical Education

I co-authord a recent MedPage Today article about social media and medical education with Dr. George Lundberg. Check it out here!

Medical education and medical practice at all levels, already online in so many ways, can no longer remain aloof from social media.

When patients ask questions about the online world, or more precisely about social media, medical professionals should at least be aware of the issues and be able to give an honest, nondefensive, appropriate answer without hesitation.

After a presentation about this course at the Medicine 2.0 Congress at Stanford University in November 2011, a U.K. physician asked permission to travel to Debrecen, Hungary, every week during the semester just to attend the course. So, Dr. Mesko developed and launched a new global format called The Social MEDia Course.

Apr 27

1 Comment

Digital literacy in the medical curriculum worldwide!

I’ve been saying this for a long time. As the internet is becoming more and more important in medicine, we must include digital literacy in medical education as young doctors must learn about internet-related issues. I made the first step by launching a free, Prezi.com based online course with 16 relevant topics covered in social media and medicine. But I need your help!

Please spread the word about it and get the information about the course to your local medical school or association.

Many thanks!

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 229 other followers

%d bloggers like this: