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This descriptive type of cross sectional study was carried out to explore the extent of use of social media by the undergraduate medical students and its consequences in medical education. This study was carried out in nine (Four public and five private) medical colleges all over Bangladesh during a period from July 2016-2017. Objective: The study revealed that the use of social media by the undergraduate medical students and its effect on their lifestyle and medical education. Methodology: Sample size was 673 medical students. Data was collected by self-administered semi-structured questionnaire from 673 respondents. Convenience sampling technique was adopted for data collection. For each variable frequency and percentages was calculated. There was also a part of in-depth interview for the respondents on the perception of use of Social media. Results: Among the students 54.68% females & 45.34% males, the mean age of the respondents was 20.76 years. Around 42.6% respondents were using Social media for4-6 years. The main use of social media by the respondents was Facebook 70.1%, main devices was mobile phone 96.8%. The main purpose of using the Social media for non-academic purposes such as, communicate with others26.0%, for chatting 51.3%. Maxium duration > 4 times / day up to >6 hours. Academic purpose 44.7% users using the SM every day. Six hundred forty six respondents agreed for negative effect of social media. 52.2% agreed that they used Social media during lecture class. Conclusion: Most students had positive thoughts towards using social media. Students were using social media for almost nonprofessional reason. So, there is need to build up widespread awareness to use social media by medical students for professionalisms. rd Key word: social media, undergraduate medical students, students perception ade to teach 3 -year medical students on this important area under the ‘Community Medicine’ curriculum in Bangladesh. Use of Social Media by the Undergraduate Medical Students: Students’ Perception in Selected Medical Colleges of Bangladesh 1 2 3 4 Dr. Husneara Begum , Professor Dr. AKM Asaduzzaman , Professor Dr. Humayun Kabir Talukder , Dr. Tahmina Nargis , 5 6 Dr. Kazi Khairul Alam , Dr. Md. Asadullah Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education ISSN: 2306-0654 11 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education 2018;9(1):11-15. © 2018 Begum et al., publisher and licensee Association for Medical Education. This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction Social media is a form of electronic communication intended to create online communities where the users share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content. Social media sites are systems that allow the composition of general or semi-general profiles within a system with defined rules. Social media can be categorized into five groups: common projects (e.g., Wikipedia), blogs or micro blogs (e.g., Blogger, Twitter), content communities (e.g., YouTube), social network sites (e.g., Facebook) and virtual games or social worlds (e.g., Human Sim). Social media are 1 not only shaping peoples' personal lives, they are also influencing professional environments. Within healthcare, recent estimates of social media usage by doctors has risen dramatically from 41% in 2010 to 90% in 2011, while rates of use have been found to be above 90% for medical students. Medical education has grown beyond the 2 boundaries of the classroom, and social media is seen as the bridge between informal and formal learning as it keeps students highly engaged with educational content outside the classroom. Although social media continue to grow, some educators find that they do not offer suitable modes of learning. Medical educators are encouraged to focus on the students in a way to minimize the gap between learners and educators. It will remain our responsibility as educators have to focus on the student, use SNSs at their fullest, and integrate them into traditional web-based management systems and into existing curriculum to the best benefit of the students. The evolution of social media has cut across all 3 facets of society with its positive and negative impacts. 1. Assistant professor, Department of, Community Medicine Enam Medical college, Savar, Dhaka 2. Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine Faridpur Diabetic Association Medical College, Faridpur. 3. Assistant Professor, Medical Education Centre for Medical Education (CME), Mohakhali, Dhaka. 4. Assistant Professor, Medical Education Centre for Medical Education (CME), Mohakhali, Dhaka. 5. Professor, Curriculum Development & Evaluation, Centre for Medical Education (CME), Mohakhali, Dhaka. 6. Associate professor, Department of Orthopedics Enam Medical college, Savar, Dhaka Address of correspondence: Dr. Husneara Begum Assistant professor, Department of, Community Medicine Enam Medical college, Savar, Dhaka Email: sharafat.malek@gmail.com Original Article Vol.09, Issue02, July 2018