Social Media Etiquette - New Professionalism for First Year Medical Students. A Descriptive Cross Sectional Study among the First Year Students of Enam Medical College

Abstract

Introduction: Social media has become an advantageous platform for several reasons. Medical students exhibit a high social media use rate even before medical school. They may not be aware of the implications of their social media use for their future careers. Objective: This study has explored the purpose of the first year medical students of EMCH regarding etiquette using the social media by professionalism. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at EMCH among the 140 new first year students during their first phase lecture class held in October 2022, using a non-probability convenience sampling technique. To collect Data we formed a structured questionnaire in English language .Descriptive statistics with crosstabulations were performed .Collected data was analysed using with SPSS version 25 The Chisquared test was used to examine the association between variables. Results: There were 140 participants. There were 56% male students and 44% female students were presents. There is statistically significant association between gender and social media posting preference. The moderate positive association suggests that gender might have a moderate influence on the choice of posting on SM (chi-square was 11.415 df 4 significance 0.022). During online interactions among132 (94.3%) students maintained honesty and transparency, 7(5%) did not that however here Mean 1.05 SD±.219.On SM about 118(84.3%) students  didn’t express their emotion ,only 21(15%) did that ( Mean 1.86 and SD±0.371) . About 83.6% (117) students  agreed that medical institute should give some transparency, 7(5%) didn’t that  however here Mean  1.05 SD±.219.On SM about 118(84.3%) students  didn’t express their emotion ,only 21(15%) did that ( Mean 1.86 and SD±0.371) . About 83.6% (117) students  agreed that medical institute should give some guideline to  avoid cyber bulling, only 7.1% did not agree, 9.3% (13) students neither agreed nor disagreed (mean 1.26 ,SD±0.616). Conclusion: this new modern era SM is an important and most effective educational aid. So medical students need to know how to use this educational aid with professional skills.

J Enam Med Col 2023; 13(2): 62-67