Residency Directors outline how social media can be utilized for medical education.
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USC launches ResearchKit app Biogram 2 to study intersection of social media & biometric data
ResearchKit app from USC to study how the integration of biometric data with social media could affect how we connect with each other.
Using Twitter to study pharmaceutical drug side effects
How twitter is being used to study drug side effects
11 essential free social media FOAM resources
A summary article on #FOAM resources for emergency medicine and how it’s changing how emergency medicine education in consumed.
Should you consider prescribing Facebook to older patients?
A graduate student from the University of Arizona, Janelle Wohltmann, is studying whether Facebook use can improve older adult cognitive performance and make them feel more socially connected. Her preliminary findings show that after using Facebook, older adults performed about 25 percent better on tasks designed to measure their ability to continuously monitor and to quickly add or delete the contents of their working memory, also known as “updating”.
