Social Media in #MedEd

Utopia & DystopiaLessons from #EDCMOOC

February 23, 2013#edcMOOC digital artefact

Suzana Makowski, MD @suzanakm Palliative Care Physician and Medical Educator

Change in Medical Education from Cowboy to Web 2.0

Building communities through open access & expansion of resources

Empowerment

Community (MD / Patient )_ _______

Reinforcing the citadels of knowledge & networks for the elite

Big Pharma’s Unholy Alliance Intellectual elitism?

Through twitter feeds, blogs, open learning communities, physicians, nurses can share information with the community - summarizing scholarly articles, announcing news of public health concern, sharing highlights from conferences & talks.

By limiting access to articles, confer-ence material, or channeling them through censored channels, the edu-cated elite can reinforce the barriers to good care and widen the gap between the health literate and illiterate.

In this digital artefact, I wanted to bridge the question of Utopian/Dystopian consequences of social media in medical education & patient education - bridging my two worlds of educator and physician.

“The core structure of medicine—how health care is organized and practiced—emerged in an era when doctors could hold all the key information patients needed in their heads and manage everything required themselves. [...] The nature of the knowledge lent itself to prizing autonomy, independence, and self-sufficiency among our highest values, and to designing medicine accordingly. But you can’t hold all the information in your head any longer, and you can’t master all the skills.” - Atul Gawade speaking at Harvard Medical School Commencement

Destroying trust: Violating the princi-ple of clinician-patient confidentialityTweets that get doctors in trouble Medical Students Recklessness

Teaching Professionalism

Enhancing humanism & compassionDigital Storytelling Compassionate learning communities