Social Media, a Core Curriculum Topic for Academic Fellowships?
I just saw the call for workshops online for the 2014 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, the main US pediatric research meeting. In it they solicit workshops, including ones focused on the American Board of Pediatrics core curriculum for pediatric fellows. Here’s a snapshot of this “core curriculum”. Did anyone else notice the gap in the list? Where’s the topic of social media, that ever pervasive tool that will one day be like waiting room furniture for every doctor?
To bolster support for this topic, does anyone have good examples of uses of social media in academic medicine? Here are some examples but I am looking for other use cases. Please Email or tweet to me with hashtag #acadhcsm.