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https://read.qxmd.com/read/25076200/social-media-and-medical-professionalism-rethinking-the-debate-and-the-way-forward
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tara Fenwick
This Perspective addresses the growing literature about online medical professionalism. Whereas some studies point to the positive potential of social media to enhance and extend medical practice, the dominant emphasis is on the risks and abuses of social media. Overall evidence regarding online medical professionalism is (as with any new area of practice) limited; however, simply accumulating more evidence, without critically checking the assumptions that frame the debate, risks reinforcing negativity toward social media...
October 2014: Academic Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25076202/climbing-social-media-in-medicine-s-hierarchy-of-needs
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COMMENT
Katherine C Chretien, Terry Kind
The social media and medicine landscape is evolving rapidly. Early research, social media policies, and educational efforts focused on risk avoidance, while more current efforts have encouraged reflection and explored opportunities. This trajectory has affirmed physicians' professional commitment to maintaining public trust in the face of new challenges in the digital age. In this Commentary, the authors propose viewing physicians' social media use as a hierarchy of needs, similar to Maslow's psychological theory which posits that more basic levels of needs must be met before higher, aspirational levels can be fully attained...
October 2014: Academic Medicine
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