To friend or not to friend? Social networking and faculty perceptions of online professionalism

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1545-1550

  Chretien, Katherine C ^a,b   Farnan, Jeanne M ^c   Greysen, S Ryan ^d   Kind, Terry ^b,e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 82655178036     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182356128     Document Type: Article

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