Measuring the extent and nature of use of Social Networking Sites in Medical Education (SNSME) by university students: Results of a multi-center study

Medical Education Online

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Guraya, Salman Yousuf ^a   Almaramhy, Hamdi ^b   Al Qahtani, Mona Faisal ^c   Guraya, Shaista Salman ^a   Bouhaimed, Manal ^d   Bilal, B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^b TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^e HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

education; Facebook; Flickr; Social networking sites; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85051143751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2018.1505400     Document Type: Article

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