Background: The vogue of social media has changed interpersonal communication as well
as learning and teaching opportunities in medical education. The most popular social media …

Twitter is a tool for physicians to increase engagement of learners and the public, share
scientific information, crowdsource new ideas, conduct, discuss and challenge emerging …

Background: Since the early 2000s social media has become a major part of our daily lives,
and over the past decade it has found its way into the medical profession. Despite its …

Abstract Background/Purpose: Today's medical students are learning in a social media era
in which patient confidentiality is at risk yet schools' social media policies have not been …

Abstract In 1991, Dahlgren and Whitehead produced a highly influential model of the
determinants of health that has since been used by numerous national and international …

Background Use of podcasts has several advantages in medical education. Podcasts can
be of different types based on their length: short (1–5 min), moderate (6–15 min) and long (> …

Interest in the educational use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in
higher education is increasing. For successful implementation, it is important to know …

The author has previously reported on principles of diffusion of innovations, the processes
by which new technologies become popularly adopted, specifically in relation to anatomy …

Background There are growing reasons to use both information and communication
functions of learning technologies as part of clinical education, but the literature offers few …

Ultrasonography is a noninvasive imaging modality, and modern ultrasound machines are
portable, inexpensive (relative to other imaging modalities), and user friendly. The aim of this …