Social media and medical education: Exploring the potential of Twitter as a learning tool

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 140-146

  Jalali, Alireza ^a   Sherbino, Jonathan ^b   Frank, Jason ^b   Sutherland, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Roy Coll Phys Surgs of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CAREER; COMPREHENSION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; COGNITION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ORGANIZATION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COGNITION; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEARNING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84929081271     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2015.1015502     Document Type: Article

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