Socially Awkward Abroad: A Call for Social Media Policies in Residencies that Offer Global Health Electives.

ABSTRACT: Both social media use and the popularity of global health electives (GHEs) have increased in recent years. Social media use during GHE is commonplace and has benefits, yet sharers may not consider the ramifications of these posts, including privacy violations. Social media policies-which have become more common in residency programs-may aid in providing clear expectations to trainees abroad. The authors aimed to determine the prevalence of social media policies among pediatric residency programs that offer GHE. The authors used a cross-sectional survey design in which educators at pediatric residency programs that offer GHE were surveyed using REDCap^®. For all quantitative data, proportions of responses were calculated and analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2013^®. The aut

SUBMITTER: Keating EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221228 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature