TY - JOUR
AR - JICOA-2020-4-108
TI - Using Social Media as a Dynamic Supplement to Traditional Teaching
AU - Swati , Anand
AU - Setu , Mehta
AU - Abu, Choudhary
AU - Siddharth , Bhesania
AU - Rishi , Thaker
AU - Stephen J , Peterson
AU - Parag , Mehta
JO - Journal of Integrative Cardiology Open Access
PY - 2020
DA - Fri 31, Jul 2020
SN - 2674-2489
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.JICOA.2020.04.08
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/using-social-media-as-a-dynamic-supplement-to-traditional-teaching_JICOA-2020-4-108 
KW - Social media, whatsapp, EKG, resident education, distance learning
AB - Covid-19 pandemic brought many changes in our lives and lead us to find new ways of didactic teaching.
Social distancing has forced us to create new methods of learning. Social media use is pervasive. It is not
just a means to connect with others, engage with news content, share information, and provide
entertainment; it is also a platform to learn. The use of social media in medical education has increased with
trainees, practitioners, and educators adopting these communication tools to facilitate learning, practice
improvement, and knowledge translation [1]. Resident doctors at a University-affiliated hospital started a
project of interpreting EKG using "WhatsApp" to provide an on-demand and dynamic platform to residents
where they can ask questions about EKGs and collaborate to learn from peers and experts. The experience
revealed that residents could participate in this learning exercise at their leisure while not constrained by
their patient-care requirements. While social media cannot replace traditional teaching, it can be used as a
supplemental tool to empower the students to get the skills they need to succeed. Such experiments are
successful with Twitter, YouTube and other platforms also. In recent times COVID forced us to use distance
learning using Zoom, WebEx or similar platforms.