As you may or may not know, I am responsible for fashioning a new curriculum in digital literacy and professionalism for medical students at Baylor College of Medicine. I’ll offer more details over the coming weeks. Until then, I need your help. Concerning digital communication tools and the growing public space for dialog, what the things that you believe a ... Continue Reading about What Should Medical Students Know About Social Media?
Doctors Using Social Media: No Longer New
This week marked the departure of blogger Mike Sevilla from public view. Operating as Doctor Anonymous in the earlier years of medical blogging, his colorful contributions to the big conversation will be missed. The thinking surrounding his decision is here. I have a couple of thoughts about Mike’s silence and how the world turns. Things aren't like they used ... Continue Reading about Doctors Using Social Media: No Longer New
Institutional Metablogs
The Greenville Health System has launched a metablog that aggregates content from blogs within its system. A blog of blogs. Despite following a number of large medical institutions, this is something that I haven’t seen executed. It raises questions about strategy versus function with regard to information. As Google punishes replicated content – how does this ... Continue Reading about Institutional Metablogs
Should Doctors be Paid to Use Social Media?
The question of physicians and renumeration for social participation makes great cocktail party, or Twitter, conversation. If you cornered me around a plate of hors d'ouvres, here’s what I might say: I think we have a responsibility to be part of the conversation. All of us should be participating in some way. Optimally we should be making the stuff that starts ... Continue Reading about Should Doctors be Paid to Use Social Media?
Creating Content Beyond Patients
When we think about doctors using tools of communication, we assume that the only thing they are capable of is creating for patients. When people look at my blog they say, 'why would a mother of a child with intestinal problems care about that?' I never said that they would. And who said that a physician's only use of public media is to translate health info? ... Continue Reading about Creating Content Beyond Patients
Doctors, Social Media and Shiny Objects
Most presentations to physicians on social media don't do the job that they should be doing. They focus on the medium rather than what the medium can bring. They focus on tools rather than the value offered by tools. The audience only sees the shiny object. Presentations that tell doctors about social media rarely motivate. Few of us care about computer ... Continue Reading about Doctors, Social Media and Shiny Objects