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Internal Medicine Physicians and Social media: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes
- Source :
- Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, Vol 11 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Objective Increasing adoption of social media have revolutionized communications between individuals, groups, and organizations This research study was designed to assess the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of internal medicine physicians’ awareness and engagement with social media (sometimes referred to as #SoMe) within the digital landscape of healthcare delivery. Methods An audience-response survey focused on social media “ Social media in Healthcare: Physician Survey,” was administered during the “A Systematic Approach to Medically Unexplained Symptoms” continuing medical education conference. The Conference took place between August 22, 2019 and August 24, 2019. Data was collected on August 23, 2019. A range of 103 (59.5%) to 112 (64.7%) of the total 173 attendees participated in this cross-sectional audience-response survey, depending on the questions answered. Results Most responders were between the ages of 35 and 65 years (79.6%) and female (60.2%). A majority of responders were aware of social media terminology (88.7%), and many had used it personally (46.7%), but only 12% knew how to use social media to search medical topics, 18% used it to network professionally and most (68.9%) had a distrust of social media when it came to the protection of their privacy or their patients’ privacy. Overall, about 29.6% indicated an interest in future continued medical education focused on social media (and 27.4% were neutral). Conclusions Approximately half of the responders used social media but far less engaged its platforms for professional use likely due to privacy related concerns. Distance from academic institutions, where professional social media use is more common likely, played a role in aversion. Awareness of social media’s role in healthcare has increased among physicians in practice, however their participation and knowledge of opportunities remains limited.
- Subjects :
- Adult
020205 medical informatics
social media
Internal medicine physicians
02 engineering and technology
Primary care
lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
primary care
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physicians
Health care
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Humans
Medicine
Social media
030212 general & internal medicine
facebook
Aged
Community and Home Care
Medical education
business.industry
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
healthcare
lcsh:RA1-1270
Pilot Studies
Middle Aged
Cross-Sectional Studies
Attitude
podcasts
lcsh:R858-859.7
twitter
Female
business
Confidentiality
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21501327
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....690be2460da80322a30d07db72e1d4fe