Udawatta Methma, Ng Edwin, Westley Phillips H, Chen Jia-Shu, Wilson Bayard, Prashant Giyarpuram N, Nagasawa Daniel T, Yang Isaac
Departments of Neurosurgery, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States; Departments of David Geffen School of Medicine of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Departments of Neurosurgery, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2019 May;180:97-100. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2019.03.027. Epub 2019 Apr 1.
Social media is evolving and growing at an exponential rate today. From a healthcare perspective, these platforms can be used to enhance professional networking, education, organizational promotion, patient care, patient education, and public health programs without the limitations of geographic and time-related access barriers. Given the possible importance of social media in medicine, and the conflicting reports in literature about its use in healthcare, it is important to identify its utility within the neurosurgical community. We set out to measure the use of social media platforms among neurosurgery faculty, fellows, and residents.
An online survey using the SurveyMonkey platform was sent to the program directors of 102 accredited neurosurgery programs across the United States. Program directors then distributed these surveys to the residents, fellows, and attendings at their respective institutions once each month between October 2017 and December 2017. Neurosurgeons participated anonymously, voluntarily, and received no compensation for their participation. Statistical analysis was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 25 (IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY).
137 attendings, 96 residents, and 8 fellows responded to the survey (81% male). Most (70%) stated that they used social media for professional purposes. Sixty percent of all respondents believed that social media can be beneficial in terms of professional development. Younger neurosurgeons in training were more likely to read journal articles found via social media and were more likely to believe social media could be beneficial than older neurosurgeons at later stages in their career.
Results point toward differences in social media use based on age or level of training. Further studies should include a larger sample cohort over a longer time period to determine whether these trends will change over time.
如今社交媒体正以指数级速度发展和增长。从医疗保健的角度来看，这些平台可用于加强专业网络建设、教育、机构推广、患者护理、患者教育以及公共卫生项目，而不受地理和时间相关访问障碍的限制。鉴于社交媒体在医学领域可能具有的重要性，以及文献中关于其在医疗保健领域使用的相互矛盾的报道，确定其在神经外科界的效用很重要。我们着手衡量神经外科教员、研究员和住院医师对社交媒体平台的使用情况。
使用SurveyMonkey平台进行的一项在线调查被发送给美国102个经认可的神经外科项目的项目主任。然后，项目主任在2017年10月至2017年12月期间每月一次将这些调查问卷分发给各自机构的住院医师、研究员和主治医生。神经外科医生匿名、自愿参与，且参与调查未获得任何报酬。使用IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows 25版（IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows，IBM公司，纽约州阿蒙克）进行统计分析。
137名主治医生、96名住院医师和8名研究员回复了调查（81%为男性）。大多数（70%）表示他们将社交媒体用于专业目的。所有受访者中有60%认为社交媒体在职业发展方面可能有益。处于培训阶段的年轻神经外科医生比处于职业生涯后期的年长神经外科医生更有可能阅读通过社交媒体找到的期刊文章，也更有可能认为社交媒体有益。
结果表明基于年龄或培训水平在社交媒体使用方面存在差异。进一步的研究应包括在更长时间段内的更大样本队列，以确定这些趋势是否会随时间变化。
