Mckay Mary, Sanko Jill Steiner, Shekhter Ilya, Birnbach David J
School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Miami , Gables, FL , USA and.
J Interprof Care. 2014 Nov;28(6):565-7. doi: 10.3109/13561820.2014.912618. Epub 2014 Apr 29.
Twitter and other social media forums are gaining popularity in both the academic and conference arenas as tools to increase participant engagement, attention and interaction. While Twitter has been used successfully to engage college students, it has not been explored for use in an interprofessional curriculum. We sought to explore it as a method to foster student engagement. During a weeklong interprofessional patient safety course we invited students and faculty to participate in a Twitter conversation. It was found that this form of social media successfully captured a "behind the scenes" conversation and the experiences of the students which would have not been otherwise captured. This information is guiding future interprofessional educational programming in both the medical and nursing schools.
推特和其他社交媒体论坛在学术和会议领域越来越受欢迎，成为增强参与者参与度、关注度和互动性的工具。虽然推特已成功用于吸引大学生，但尚未在跨专业课程中进行探索。我们试图将其作为一种促进学生参与的方法进行探索。在为期一周的跨专业患者安全课程中，我们邀请学生和教师参与推特对话。结果发现，这种社交媒体形式成功捕捉到了“幕后”对话以及学生的经历，而这些是无法通过其他方式获取的。这些信息正在指导医学院和护理学院未来的跨专业教育项目。
