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Most college system administrators,as in our institution tackle the facebook menace by blocking it and medical students are not even allowed wifi access in the library during working hours.
 
However this does mean we are blocking out an important means of online portfolio based learning and formative assessment of medical students.
 
Some of our students access our facebook group after working hours although it cannot thrive unless there is institutional support.
 
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=102177045567
 
Conscientious, explicit ( but not illicit as in KevinMD's article), and judicious use of facebook like social networking architecture may go a long way to augment learning outcomes in medicine.
 
rakesh
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Piersante Sestini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I don't have an answer to your question, but I suspect that you are confusing policies (regulations) with guidelines (helpful suggestions).

What would be the specific problem(s) that such a guideline should address? Which are the parties involved? What kind of evidence should be appraised? What kind of recommendation should it give?


regards,
Piersante Sestini

Pranab Chatterjee wrote:
Hi,

I read this article over at Kevin Pho's blog:

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/09/medical-students-facebook-twitter-expelled.html

And I must admit, I got very scared. Is there a guideline for students in your institutions (or if you are, like me, a student, a guideline that you are supposed to adhere to?)? There is none in my medical school (I daresay any medical school in India has them!).

If there is one in your instition, could you pass one on?

And... how good are these?

Regards,
Pranab


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