'Doctors can't be doctors all of the time': a qualitative study of how general practitioners and medical students negotiate public-professional and private-personal realms using social media.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study is to explore the experiences and perspectives of general practitioners' and medical students' use of, and behaviour on, social media and to understand how they negotiate threats to professional and personal life on social media.

Design

A two-phase qualitative design was used, consisting of semistructured interviews and follow-up vignettes, where participants were asked to respond to vignettes that involved varying degrees of unprofessional behaviour. Data were analysed using template analysis.

Setting and participants

Participants were general practitioner tutors and third year medical students who had just completed placement on the University of Limerick longitudinal integrated clerkship. Five students and three general practit

SUBMITTER: Marshal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527115 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature