Background: Medicine has struggled to integrate a new generation of social media
technologies. Rather than focusing on the promise of these emerging tools, the academic …

The use of images in various forms (drawing, photography, digital applications) has always
been intrinsically associated with anatomy; however, the way in which anatomy educators …

In the last years there has been a growing interest in using social media in every area of
higher education (from political and social sciences towards engineering or medicine …

Virtual communities play an increasing role in the lives of today's adolescents. Most
adolescents have Internet access, most report daily use, and up to 97% of US college …

By 2010, 60% of adults in the UK were using the internet every day or almost every day, and
this figure continues to increase. 1 Although the use of the internet is becoming increasingly …

Objective The main aim of our study was to establish the prevalence of social networking
accounts among a group of second-level students (aged 15-18 years), to determine whether …

Online social networking is increasingly used for communication among patients with the
same or similar disorder, and among patients and their physicians. The patients share their …

Purpose–Healthcare is becoming an important part of people's online content consumption,
with people searching for information on diseases or medical problems, treatments or …

Background: As the world is changing, traditional health care services should be adapted for
the new era of technology and the Internet. One of the possible ways for communication …

El uso de los sitios web denominados redes sociales es cada vez más frecuente en la
práctica médica. El objetivo de este artículo es proporcionar a los médicos y estudiantes de …