“Earlier posts in this series suggested that EHRs and social media have had a large impact on medicine. It does not necessarily follow however, that medical education processes should be modified to account for them. After all, thousands of technologies have disseminated into the medical mainstream, and the system seems to have accommodated them organically.
To some extent, this is already happening with social media, the most disruptive of the new health information technologies. In the previously discussed Florida study of Facebook utilization by young physicians for example, 64% of medical students were found to have fully public Facebook accounts, whereas only 12% of resident physicians did.”
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers, 4 September 2009
