McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
Perspect Med Educ. 2020 Feb;9(1):20-30. doi: 10.1007/s40037-019-00542-7.
The use of social media is rapidly changing how educational content is delivered and knowledge is translated for physicians and trainees. This scoping review aims to aggregate and report trends on how health professions educators harness the power of social media to engage physicians for the purposes of knowledge translation and education.
A scoping review was conducted by searching four databases (PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and ERIC) for publications emerging between 1990 to March 2018. Articles about social media usage for teaching physicians or their trainees for the purposes of knowledge translation or education were included. Relevant themes and trends were extracted and mapped for visualization and reporting, primarily using the Cook, Bordage, and Schmidt framework for types of educational studies (Description, Justification, and Clarification).
There has been a steady increase in knowledge translation and education-related social media literature amongst physicians and their trainees since 1996. Prominent platforms include Twitter (n = 157), blogs (n = 104), Facebook (n = 103), and podcasts (n = 72). Dominant types of scholarship tended to be descriptive studies and innovation reports. Themes related to practice improvement, descriptions of the types of technology, and evidence-based practice were prominently featured.
Social media is ubiquitously used for knowledge translation and education targeting physicians and physician trainees. Some best practices have emerged despite the transient nature of various social media platforms. Researchers and educators may engage with physicians and their trainees using these platforms to increase uptake of new knowledge and affect change in the clinical environment.
社交媒体的使用正在迅速改变医学专业学术文献的传递方式和知识转化方式。本范围综述旨在汇总并报告卫生专业教育者如何利用社交媒体的力量来吸引医生，以实现知识转化和教育的趋势。
通过在 1990 年至 2018 年 3 月之间的四个数据库（PubMed、Scopus、Embase 和 ERIC）中搜索，进行了范围综述。纳入了关于使用社交媒体来教授医生或其学员，以实现知识转化或教育目的的文章。提取了相关主题和趋势，并进行了可视化和报告，主要使用 Cook、Bordage 和 Schmidt 的教育研究类型框架（描述、证明和澄清）。
自 1996 年以来，关于医生及其学员的知识转化和教育相关社交媒体文献数量稳步增加。知名平台包括 Twitter（n=157）、博客（n=104）、Facebook（n=103）和播客（n=72）。主要的学术类型倾向于描述性研究和创新报告。与实践改进、技术类型描述和循证实践相关的主题是突出的。
社交媒体被广泛用于针对医生和医生学员的知识转化和教育。尽管各种社交媒体平台的性质短暂，但已经出现了一些最佳实践。研究人员和教育者可以利用这些平台与医生及其学员进行互动，以增加新知识的采用率，并影响临床环境中的变化。
