Alsuraihi Anas Khaleel, Almaqati Ahmed Saeed, Abughanim Sultan Adnan, Jastaniah Nisreen Abdulrahman
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center/King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences College of Medicine, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center/King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Family Medicine, Geriatric and Palliative Care, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Korean J Med Educ. 2016 Dec;28(4):343-354. doi: 10.3946/kjme.2016.40. Epub 2016 Dec 1.
Social media (SM), a virtual place where people can share, exchange, and communicate their ideas and knowledge, has become the new trend in communication and learning. This study aims to explore Saudi Arabian medical students' usage of SM and to discover the most common resources used in medical education. Furthermore, it aims to illustrate students' belief about the influence of SM on their learning.
This cross-sectional study administered validated questionnaires to medical students from different universities in Saudi Arabia, via emails, Twitter, Facebook, and short message service. A non-probability sampling technique was utilized and a sample size of 381 students was arrived at, using 95% confidence interval and 5% margin of error, since the total number of medical students in Saudi Arabia is approximately 36,000. The total respondents were 657 students from 23 different Saudi Arabian medical schools (females: 60.5%, n=397; males: 39.5%, n=260).
The questionnaires of 21% of the students (n=139) were excluded from the analysis since they were incomplete. The most common website used by both genders was YouTube (42.3%, n=185); however, males preferred using Twitter and Wikis (p=0.001). With regard to utilizing SM for learning, 95.8% (n=419) of the students believed that it is beneficial. Females stated that SM helps them link basic and clinical science (p=0.003).
Medical schools need to improve the utilization of SM by their faculty and students by developing activities and encouraging the usage of SM in education.
社交媒体（SM）是一个人们可以分享、交流和传达想法与知识的虚拟场所，已成为沟通和学习的新趋势。本研究旨在探讨沙特阿拉伯医学生对社交媒体的使用情况，并找出医学教育中最常用的资源。此外，旨在阐明学生对社交媒体对其学习影响的看法。
本横断面研究通过电子邮件、推特、脸书和短信向沙特阿拉伯不同大学的医学生发放经过验证的问卷。采用非概率抽样技术，由于沙特阿拉伯医学生总数约为36000人，使用95%置信区间和5%误差幅度，得出样本量为381名学生。总共有来自沙特阿拉伯23所不同医学院校的657名学生参与调查（女性：60.5%，n = 397；男性：39.5%，n = 260）。
21%的学生（n = 139）的问卷因不完整而被排除在分析之外。男女最常使用的网站是YouTube（42.3%，n = 185）；然而，男性更喜欢使用推特和维基（p = 0.001）。在利用社交媒体进行学习方面，95.8%（n = 419）的学生认为这是有益的。女性表示社交媒体有助于她们将基础科学和临床科学联系起来（p = 0.003）。
医学院校需要通过开展活动并鼓励在教育中使用社交媒体，来提高教师和学生对社交媒体的利用。
