September 23, 2009 — It is not uncommon for medical students to post unprofessional and even illegal information on social networking sites like Facebook and media-sharing sites like YouTube, a survey of medical schools shows.
In an anonymous poll of student affairs administrators from schools across the country, 60% said they were aware of incidents in which students had posted unprofessional content online and 13% said the incidents involved breaches of patient confidentiality.
Three of the incidents resulted in students being dismissed from medical school, but just half of the school administrators said they either had policies in place or were developing policies to define inappropriate online content. Click Here to Read More…