Social media has revolutionized the medical community by helping health professionals share information more rapidly than ever before and connect with an extraordinarily diverse international audience, all by using their mobile device. At no time did this become more important than at the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic when a physician from Wuhan, China first warned of a new respiratory virus on social media. Within a few months, Italy became the new epicenter of the outbreak, and health professionals shared devastating personal accounts of the impact of SARS-CoV-2.
Social Media and #MedEd: Moving Beyond Descriptive Research.