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A personal reflection on social media in medicine: I stand, no wiser than before

Overview of attention for article published in International Review of Psychiatry, April 2015
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (59th percentile)

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Title
A personal reflection on social media in medicine: I stand, no wiser than before
Published in
International Review of Psychiatry, April 2015
DOI 10.3109/09540261.2015.1015503
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Authors

John Weiner

Abstract

Social media has enabled information, communication and reach for health professionals. There are clear benefits to patients and consumers when health information is broadcast. But there are unanswered questions on professionalism, education, and the complex mentoring relationship between doctor and student. This personal perspective raises a number of questions: What is online medical professionalism? Can online medical professionalism be taught? Can online medical professionalism be enforced? Is an online presence necessary to achieve the highest level of clinical excellence? Is there evidence that social media is superior to traditional methods of teaching in medical education? Does social media encourage multitasking and impairment of the learning process? Are there downsides to the perfunctory laconic nature of social media? Does social media waste time that is better spent attaining clinical skills?

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Australia 2 2%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Canada 2 2%
United States 2 2%
Denmark 1 1%
Unknown 72 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 12%
Other 7 9%
Researcher 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Other 19 23%
Unknown 19 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 33%
Social Sciences 12 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 6%
Computer Science 4 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 18 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 12 October 2022.
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#1,840,443
of 25,260,058 outputs
Outputs from International Review of Psychiatry
#118
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#23,187
of 271,584 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Review of Psychiatry
#10
of 22 outputs
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