Muhammad Zahid Latif, Intizar Hussain, Rehan Ahmed Khan, Usman Mehboob, Rahila Nizami, Shamshad Ali.
Use of social media for medical education; perspective of medical faculty from sialkot, pakistan.
J Med Sci Jan ;28(2):171-5.

Objective: To study the perspective of faculty members about the use of social media in medical education. Material and Methods: Across sectional descriptive study was conducted among the faculty of three medical colleges from Sialkot. After ethical approval and informed consent, a structured, pretested questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was entered in IBM SPSS version 23 and analyzed by the use of statistical tools. Results: Out of the total of 123 participants of this study, 65 (52.8%) were males and 58 (47.2%) were females. Mean age of the males was 41.43+-10.91years and females were of 32.84+-7.83years.Faculty members` use of Social Media in teaching was more in private colleges than public college (P-value 0.018). Benefits score was higher in private institution (p-value 0.300). Barriers score was higher in public institutions but difference was not statistically significant (p-value 0.638).Use of social media score was higher in females but the difference was not statistically significant (p-value 0.965).Conclusion: Majority of the medical faculty in private sector use social media for education whereas the public-sector faculty is also engaged in the process of education through social media tools.

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