Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Med Teach. 2020 Sep;42(9):970-972. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1779920. Epub 2020 Jun 18.
Social media has applications for teaching, learning, and patient involvement in medical education. It has the potential to eliminate hierarchies in educational interactions, thereby allowing patients to communicate, collaborate, and share information with learners. This commentary suggests that we should consider patients as experts who are available on social media platforms and can therefore play a role in medical education. Specifically, it highlights how patients can serve as teachers in social media-based medical education and how patients' narratives and experiences volunteered in online spaces can help cultivate patient-centred care practices. This article aims to explore how medical students, residents, and practicing physicians can learn from patients on social media and the implications of this learning on medical education more broadly.
社交媒体在医学教育中具有教学、学习和患者参与的应用。它有可能消除教育互动中的等级制度，从而使患者能够与学习者进行交流、协作和共享信息。本评论建议我们将患者视为专家，他们可以在社交媒体平台上提供帮助，因此可以在医学教育中发挥作用。具体来说，它强调了患者如何在基于社交媒体的医学教育中担任教师，以及患者在在线空间中自愿提供的叙述和经验如何有助于培养以患者为中心的护理实践。本文旨在探讨医学生、住院医师和执业医师如何从社交媒体上的患者身上学习，以及这种学习对更广泛的医学教育的影响。
