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| Title |
Online Professionalism and the Mirror of Social Media
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of General Internal Medicine, July 2010
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11606-010-1447-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
S. Ryan Greysen, Terry Kind, Katherine C. Chretien |
| Abstract |
The rise of social media--content created by Internet users and hosted by popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia, and blogs--has brought several new hazards for medical professionalism. First, many physicians may find applying principles for medical professionalism to the online environment challenging in certain contexts. Second, physicians may not consider the potential impact of their online content on their patients and the public. Third, a momentary lapse in judgment by an individual physician to create unprofessional content online can reflect poorly on the entire profession. To overcome these challenges, we encourage individual physicians to realize that as they "tread" through the World Wide Web, they leave behind a "footprint" that may have unintended negative consequences for them and for the profession at large. We also recommend that institutions take a proactive approach to engage users of social media in setting consensus-based standards for "online professionalism." Finally, given that professionalism encompasses more than the avoidance of negative behaviors, we conclude with examples of more positive applications for this technology. Much like a mirror, social media can reflect the best and worst aspects of the content placed before it for all to see. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 23 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 9% |
| Ireland | 1 | 4% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 11 | 48% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 52% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 7 | 30% |
| Scientists | 3 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 422 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 16 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 2% |
| Australia | 4 | <1% |
| Canada | 4 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 6 | 1% |
| Unknown | 379 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 78 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 58 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 54 | 13% |
| Researcher | 33 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 29 | 7% |
| Other | 113 | 27% |
| Unknown | 57 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 132 | 31% |
| Social Sciences | 61 | 14% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 33 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 27 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 26 | 6% |
| Other | 71 | 17% |
| Unknown | 72 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 55. 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 05 June 2018.
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#764,173
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#609
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#2,055
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#6
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