Social Media in Medicine

Margaret S. Chisolm is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She writes about substance use, humanistic practice, and medical education; and is a Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence member, an Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism Scholar, and 2014 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award recipient.

Introduction – Social media in medicine: The volume that Twitter built

Margaret S. Chisolm

1. Perspectives on social media in and as research: A synthetic review

Natalie T. Lafferty and Annalisa Manca

2. Ethical issues when using social media for health outside professional relationships

Matthew Decamp

3. Online professionalism: A synthetic review

Katherine C. Chretien and Matthew G. Tuck

4. Online social support networks

Neil Mehta and Ashish Atreja

5. Social media for lifelong learning

Terry Kind and Yolanda Evans

6. Live tweeting in medicine: ‘Tweeting the meeting’

Alexander M. Djuricich and Janine E. Zee-Cheng

7. Social media and medical education: Exploring the potential of Twitter as a learning tool

Alireza Jalali, Jonathan Sherbino, Jason Frank and Stephanie Sutherland

8. Social media, medicine and the modern journal club

Joel M. Topf and Swapnil Hiremath

9. A personal reflection on social media in medicine: I stand, no wiser than before

John Wiener

10. Personal reflections on exploring social media in medicine

Brent Thoma

11. My three shrinks: Personal stories of social media exploration

Steve Daviss, Annette Hanson and Dinah Miller