Twelve tips for using Twitter as a learning tool in medical education

Medical Teacher

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-14

  Forgie, Sarah Edith ^a   Duff, Jon P ^a   Ross, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTERNET; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA;

BLOGGING; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871939642     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.746448     Document Type: Article

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