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Social Media Use in Medical Education

Overview of attention for article published in Academic medicine, June 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#35 of 6,828)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
304 X users
facebook
9 Facebook pages
googleplus
4 Google+ users

Citations

dimensions_citation
527 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
671 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
Title
Social Media Use in Medical Education
Published in
Academic medicine, June 2013
DOI 10.1097/acm.0b013e31828ffc23
Pubmed ID
Authors

Christine C. Cheston, Tabor E. Flickinger, Margaret S. Chisolm

Abstract

The authors conducted a systematic review of the published literature on social media use in medical education to answer two questions: (1) How have interventions using social media tools affected outcomes of satisfaction, knowledge, attitudes, and skills for physicians and physicians-in-training? and (2) What challenges and opportunities specific to social media have educators encountered in implementing these interventions?

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Argentina 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 642 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 90 13%
Student > Bachelor 68 10%
Other 57 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 51 8%
Lecturer 46 7%
Other 212 32%
Unknown 147 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 246 37%
Social Sciences 75 11%
Computer Science 33 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 19 3%
Other 107 16%
Unknown 165 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 232. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 September 2023.
All research outputs
#164,487
of 25,498,750 outputs
Outputs from Academic medicine
#35
of 6,828 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,016
of 206,728 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Academic medicine
#2
of 78 outputs
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