Twitter as a tool to enhance student engagement during an interprofessional patient safety course.
Twitter and other social media forums are gaining popularity in both the academic and conference arenas as tools to increase participant engagement, attention and interaction. While Twitter has been used successfully to engage college students, it has not been explored for use in an interprofessiona...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Interprofessional Care Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 565 - 568 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2014
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=103901380&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 103901380 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 13561820 57N jtl: Journal of Interprofessional Care issn: 13561820 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov2014 vid: 28 iid: 6 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 103901380 98772923 10.3109/13561820.2014.912618 NLM24779404 103901380 ppf: 565 ppct: 3 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Twitter as a tool to enhance student engagement during an interprofessional patient safety course. aug: au: Mckay, Mary Sanko, Jill Steiner Shekhter, Ilya Birnbach, David J. affil: School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Miami Gables, FL USA sug: subj: Patient Safety Interprofessional Relations Social Media Utilization Students, Medical Florida Students, Nursing Florida Collaboration Surveys Florida Human Faculty ab: Twitter and other social media forums are gaining popularity in both the academic and conference arenas as tools to increase participant engagement, attention and interaction. While Twitter has been used successfully to engage college students, it has not been explored for use in an interprofessional curriculum. We sought to explore it as a method to foster student engagement. During a weeklong interprofessional patient safety course we invited students and faculty to participate in a Twitter conversation. It was found that this form of social media successfully captured a 'behind the scenes' conversation and the experiences of the students which would have not been otherwise captured. This information is guiding future interprofessional educational programming in both the medical and nursing schools. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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