The influence of social media in minimally invasive surgery education: How surgeons exchange experience and knowledge in these platforms

Diego Laurentino Lima; Raquel Nogueira Cordeiro; Gustavo Lopes Carvalho; Flavio Malcher

doi:10.4103/jmas.JMAS_270_18

The influence of social media in minimally invasive surgery education: How surgeons exchange experience and knowledge in these platforms

J Minim Access Surg. 2019 Jul-Sep;15(3):275-276. doi: 10.4103/jmas.JMAS_270_18.

Authors

Diego Laurentino Lima¹, Raquel Nogueira Cordeiro², Gustavo Lopes Carvalho³, Flavio Malcher⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Surgery, State Servers Hospital, Recife, Brazil.
² Medical Student, Pernambuco Health College, Recife, Brazil.
³ Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Clinical Research Group of the University of Pernambuco, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
⁴ Montefiore Medical Center, NY, USA.

Abstract

Engagement with social media is increasing within medical professionals. There are many different platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Twitter, Telegram, and so on. Social media is a new and important tool for surgical education. More and more surgeons are joining restricted groups to discuss surgical techniques, manuscripts, etc in a daily basis. It is important that residents and surgeons have a very critical opinion about what they look online. Not everything is good or feasible.

Keywords: Laparoscopy; minimally invasive surgery; surgical education.