The ICRE Blog

Technology and social media have been increasingly impacting our daily lives in recent years – in both a personal and professional sense – and health care has certainly not been exempt from this social revolution.

The influence of social media on medical education and training has been so notable, in fact, that in 2014, the inaugural Social Media (SoMe) Summit in Health Professional Education was held as a part of the International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE) in Toronto, Canada. The goal of the open access consensus conference was to discuss and determine best practices in the design and use of social media in health professions education.

Now, as a result of the SoMe Summit, six provocative and informative papers have been released by the Postgraduate Medical Journal, which explore everything from quality indicators for medical education blogs and podcasts, to the professional use of social media.

All six peer-reviewed publications are free to access:

The Social Media Summit in Health Professions Education

Author: Jonathan Sherbino

Social media in medical education: A new pedagogical paradigm?

Authors: Toby Hillman & Jonathan Sherbino

Quality indicators for blogs and podcasts used in medical education: Modified Delphi consensus recommendations by an international cohort of health professions educators

Authors: Michelle Lin, Brent Thoma, N. Seth Trueger, Felix Ankel, Jonathan Sherbino & Teresa Chan

Criteria for social media-based scholarship in health professions education

Authors: Jonathan Sherbino, Vineet M Arora, Elaine Van Melle, Robert Rogers, Jason R. Frank & Eric S. Holmboe

Learning theory and its application to the use of social media in medical education

Authors: Leslie Flynn, Alireza Jalali & Katherine A. Moreau

Thou shalt not tweet unprofessionally: An appreciative inquiry into the professional use of social media

Authors: Ian Pereira, Anne Marie Cunningham, Katherine Moreau, Jonathan Sherbino & Alireza Jalali

Want to continue the conversation about social media and its impact on medical education?

Follow @RC_ICRE_CIFR on Twitter during the 2015 International Conference on Residency Education in Vancouver, Canada, October 22 – 24, and use the hashtag #ICRE2015 to get noticed (and re-tweeted) by Dr. Jonathan Sherbino.

As the face of social media for ICRE 2015, Dr. Sherbino will share key messages taken from Twitter at the beginning of each conference plenary session.

Become a #MedEd influencer at #ICRE2015!