Social Media and Health Professions Education (#HCSMPh Summit 2015, Track 3)
It has long been recognized that there is a social aspect to learning. Social media by enabling collaboration and community building can be a valuable tool in education
View ArticleSocial media in healthcare education, inclusion or just distraction?
There are stinging questions to the value social media in educating healthcare or would be healthcare professionals. Would incorporating social media in healthcare education really improve the...
View ArticleAttitudes to nurture for today’s health professionals
The need to give importance to attitudes in education/training The health professions deal with patients’ lives. Thus it is really expected that training in these professions put much importance on...
View ArticlePatient Education via social media- what sticks and what’s (probably) fake….
Advocates has long championed social media as a tool for patient education in healthcare. Social media was taunted to increase meaningful patient engagements, an increase health practitioners’ and...
View ArticleStrategies and technologies healthcare professionals use for learning
Patients inspire healthcare professionals to learn. When learning "expands" from formal school alone to include many other sources, we must employ strategies and technologies to continually learn. In...
View ArticleHow health workers learn and take care of patients in the new normal.
COVID 19 pandemic forever changed the way humans live. Healthcare it seems, has to bear the burden of fighting this pandemic (and all other enemies of health ) while continually learning about this...
View ArticleRebuilding social connections, learning and finding purpose in the new, “post...
Experiencing how we lived through this pandemic and hopefully soon, a post pandemic world, I had so many questions and realizations. In all these, adaptation has been our greatest ally in rebuilding in...
View ArticleNurturing Safe and Brave Spaces on Social Media
Social media has been a “comfortable” space ever since I joined most of these platforms. This is not just because I’m comfortable with computers and the internet, but I tend to gravitate and...
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