Presentation at the MEI2012 conference (Medical Education Informatics), April 06-07, 2012 - Thessaloniki, Greece

1. Web 2.0 and Social Media
in Medical Education

2. Peter J. Murray
CEO, International Medical Informatics Association
(IMIA)
Disclaimer: views expressed are personal and should not be
interpreted as an official IMIA view on any issue
Member: IMIA Education, Social Media, Open Source WGs

4. Content, curriculum, access, interaction
thoughts towards developing IMIA's
strategic role in health and biomedical
informatics education
IMIA Education WG meeting and InfoLAC2008
Buenos Aires, Argentina – October 2008

5. Original 1999 – updated 2010
Methods of Information in Medicine
Free download http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME5119

6. Content √
Curriculum √
Access ?
Interaction ?

7. Are we educators - or educational
technologists?
- or both?
- which should we be
or should we focus on?
- which can/should social media address?

8. Web 2.0 / Social Media in
Education
should be as content
and
as delivery mechanism

9. “Today’s students – represent the first generations to...
have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using
computers, videogames, digital music players, video
cams, cell phones ....
Today’s average college grads have spent less than
5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours
playing video games... games, email, the Internet, cell
phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their
lives.”
Marc Prensky “Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants” (2001) http://
www.marcprensky.com/

10. Web 2.0 / Social Media in
Education
as delivery mechanism in education
some progress

11. Do you use this in your teaching?

13. Blogs
develop writing skills
reflective writing, practice
sharing ideas with others

14. Podcasts, etc.
content delivery
anytime, anywhere consumption
for things that bear repetition

15. RSS
share/collect content sources
filter content – manage the information
overload
keep up-to-date

16. Microblogging (Twitter)
Presentation sharing/collaboration
Social bookmarking
Collaborative writing/editing

17. Web 2.0 / Social Media in
Education:
how much progress in including
as course content?

18. Learning (Styles) 2.0:
Digital, Social, and Always On
“We now accept the fact that learning
is a lifelong process
of keeping abreast of change.
And the most pressing task is to
teach people how to learn.”
Peter Drucker

19. 23 years old; final year medical student
Debrecan, Hungary
main interests:
personalised genetics/genomics
social media in health/medicine
(2008)

20. Social media is changing how medicine is
practiced and healthcare is delivered.
Patients, doctors, communication or even time
management, everything is changing, except one
thing:
medical education.
We need a revolution!
(Mesko, 2012 – scienceroll.com)

21. thecourse.webicina.com

22. The need for research
… do we have evidence for the value of social media in
education?
… with the rapid evolution of technology, what are the
best research methods?
… what effects do social media have relative to health?

23. Possible research areas
… how do we develop/adapt existing research methods
to explore social media healthcare applications for
academic research?
… researching collaboration tools and virtual
organisations for researchers
… exploring the implications (e.g. in human factors
engineering, or open source software) of the intersection of
health and informatics with social media

24. @medicine20
www.medicine20congress.com

25. www.slideshare.net/drpeter
@peterjmurray
peterjmurray@gmail.com