Use of Blogs for Dermatology Education Rosa Taberner Hospital Son Llàtzer (Palma de Mallorca)
Jun 13, 2015
Use of Blogs for Dermatology Education
Rosa TabernerHospital Son Llàtzer (Palma de Mallorca)
Web 2.0 applications
• Web 2.0 applications have been increasingly adopted by many online health-related professional and educational services.
• Opportunity for powerful information sharing and ease of collaboration.
“Infoxication”
@FisioenAP
Content curation
PLE
• Personal Learning Environment.• Systems that help learners take control of and
manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to:– Set their own learning goals.– Manage their learning, both content and process.– Communicate with others in the process of
learning.
PLE for @rosataberner
What’s a blog?
• A blog (web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the internet and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).
• Blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments.
Dermatologic blogosphere
Patients(divulgation, marketing, branding)
General Practitioners
(learning)
Dermatologists(learning,
news)
Divulgation…
For general practitioners
For dermatologists
So… Let’s blog
• www.dermapixel.com• Blog of “daily dermatology”• Addressed to family doctors, paediatricians,
dermatology residents, students and other health workers.
• Main goals:– Evaluation tool for rotating residents in
Dermatology Service at Son Llatzer Hospital.– Teaching dermatology tool.– Independence (no funding).
Blog dynamics
Saturday• Clinical case
Comments
Wednesday• Answer
Subscriptions
Subscriptions
Subscriptions
Subscriptions
HON*-Code
• The HONcode certification is an ethical standard aimed at offering quality health information. It demonstrates the intent of a website to publish transparent information.
• The HONcode is the most widely accepted reference for online health and medical publishers.
*Health On the Net Foundation
Blogging is easy• You don’t need technical skills
Blogging is free (it can be)
• Free blogging platforms.
• Blogger (Google), WordPress.
Digital reputation, visibility
Prizes…
Radio program
Other blogs…
Feedback
The dark side of blogging
Privacy
• Clinical images (real cases).
• Consent from patients.
• Invented names, situations.
• No legal conflict.
Digital divide
Venereal diseases
• Blogger could ban “sensitive content”.
• No genital lesions*
Moderate comments
• Personal consultations• Destructive
comments (trolls)• Spam
Fear of being copied
Creative Commons
No money
Present… and future
• Guest blogging (invite other dermatologists to collaborate)• E-book (free)