Open Access#OrthoTwitter: social media as an educational tool
Author(s) -
Muhammad Arham Sahu,
Zahrah GoolamMahomed,
Simon Fleming,
Usman Ahmed
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bmj simulation and technology enhanced learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2056-6697
DOI - 10.1136/bmjstel-2020-000630
Subject(s) - social media , medicine , medical education , orthopedic surgery , content analysis , world wide web , computer science , surgery , sociology , social science
The increased use of social media creates opportunity for new, effective methods of delivering medical and clinical education. Twitter is a popular social media platform where users can post frequent updates and create threads containing related content using hashtags. This study aims to investigate and analyse the type of content relating to orthopaedic surgery that is being posted on the platform of Twitter.