Evaluating the Use of Twitter to Enhance the Educational Experience of a Medical School Surgery Clerkship

Although it has been suggested that social-networking services such as Twitter could be used as a tool for medical education, few studies have evaluated its use in this setting. We sought to evaluate the use of Twitter as a novel educational tool in a medical school surgery clerkship. We hypothesized that Twitter can enhance the educational experience of clerkship students.We performed a prospective observational study. We created a new Twitter...