A Twitter Education: Why Psychiatrists Should Tweet

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Peters, Matthew E ^a   Uible, Elisabeth ^a   Chisolm, Margaret S ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Career development; Professionalism; Psychiatric education; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CITATION ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; INFORMATION STORAGE; INTERNET; LIFELONG LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOBILE APPLICATION; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; TWITTER; WEBCAST; COOPERATION; DEVICES; MASS COMMUNICATION; PROCEDURES;

BLOGGING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84944061293     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-015-0635-4     Document Type: Review

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