Background
Social media has great potential to support and enable health professional education to promote knowledge sharing, communication, networking and research/evaluation. While most health professional trainees are already using social media unofficially in health education, professional schools and licensing bodies are still catching up in establishing pathways and policies to support social media use in health.
Purpose
The key objective of this initiative is to identify and recommend strategies to integrate and harmonize social media into the full spectrum of health professional education, and to carry out educational research and evaluation to follow social media evolution in the future. Leveraging the global presence of U21, the interprofessional strengths of our network, and the experience and enthusiasm we have in our body of students and faculty members, we are examining three areas:
- Current best practices in education
- Existing and needed educational policies
- Areas of educational research
Highlights
- We are currently collecting data through an online survey sent to students and faculty in department of health sciences around the world.
- Workshop May 10, 2014 at UBC
- Workshop Sep 23, 2014 at Fudan University
Project Partners
| Project partners | Affiliation | Country |
| Agnes Tiwari | School of Nursing, University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| Claire Anderson | School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| DamienWalmsley | School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| Jason Last (Co-Principal Investigator) | School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin | Ireland |
| Louisa Remedios | Department of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne | Australia |
| Martin Hernandez | Academic and Research Vice President of TecSalud, Tecnológico de Monterrey System | Mexico |
| Ye Lu | School of Public Health, Fudan University | China |
| Students | Affiliation | Country |
| Baljeet Nandra | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| Emily Cutts | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| Estefania Terrazas | Tecnológico de Monterrey | Mexico |
| Hilary Hughes | University College Dublin | Ireland |
| Phil Goebel | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| Wang Fan & Zou Runyu | Fudan University | China |
| Wendy Davis | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| Yobie Lam | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
Project Team
Kendall Ho, Co-principal Investigator
Helen Novak Lauscher, Assistant Director
Erica Amari, Project Manager, Project contact
Jen Cordeiro, Research Coordinator
Caroline Voisine, Executive Officer, U21 Health Sciences