http://youtu.be/tZYtZN24x_Q
From the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media:
As recently graduated medical students are on the verge of beginning their residency programs, the Social Media Health Network is pleased to offer a resource to encourage awareness of and discussions relating to use of social media.
The video features some excellent snippets of advice from several physicians with well-established online footprints:
Bryan Vartabedian, 33 Charts:
You can’t control what other people say about you… What you can control, is the content that you create.
Wendy Sue Swanson, Seattle Mama Doc:
Everything we do can be captured online and reflected that way, and it’s important because it will reflect to your patients, and ultimately to the community where you can provide great impact of who you are, [and] what you stand for.
Katherine Chretien, @MotherinMed:
We can be part of putting forth credible information on the Internet… there’s a lot of information that’s badly needing of our perspective and our physician expertise.
Victor Montori, Mayo Clinic
The first thing that people worry about is whether you can be a physician in that [online] space… and act as a health professional in that space, and the answer of course is yes. The ways in which it can be done and should be done are of course for you to discover.
We wish great luck and confidence to the new residents starting at UBC this summer, and hope to see many of them online in the near future!