Social media quality in undergraduate medical education: A reconceptualisation and taxonomy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social Media (SoMe) as a learning tool, though ubiquitous in society and popular within medical education, is often criticised as superficial. Its limitless output has been blamed for encouraging shorter attention spans and shirking in-depth reflection. The evidence base is itself superficial and lacking rigour or meaning. We aimed to consider a theoretical basis for how 'quality' learning may happen on such platforms. Our findings then informed the construction of a taxonomy for SoMe learning.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative interview study of United Kingdom (UK) medical students using a theory-informed inductive study design. The research question was: 'How do medical students conceptualise quality of learning on social media?'. We purposively sampled partici

SUBMITTER: Guckian J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11663730 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature