Saturday, May 6, 2017

LEARNING MICROBIOLOGY /MEDICINE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA – AND ONLINE RESOURCES 
Dr.T.V.Rao MD We have many medical colleges, offering the medical students the learning through didactic teaching less of practical training and interactive symposiums, However the world is changing for better learning. In a recent survey in well-established medical school in Europe the students log into the next topic coming up for teaching and discussions on WWW Google and get acquitted with matters, faster and it proved that they are more updated with Online resources than their teachers, now the Social media wish to catch the young just not gossiping but with Real Time resources in medicine and science Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and Flickr, as well as open social practices such as blogging, s are being used in learning for the purpose of convenient communication with other students and potentially with others outside the class such as students of the same topic and subject experts., Many social media, as commercial endeavors, are attractive in that their features often surpass those of internal fire walled environments now it is truly happening in many of our mushrooming medical colleges, and students mug up theory and few Teachers are interested to transfer the skill based training, I have taken to the ideas why not train the many young in the world in Microbiology and Infectious diseases with little atavism, I have integrated Twitter and Facebook into the teaching of my Activism and publish in the Information Age module. Many students have reported that it helps them make the links between theory and breaking news stories and social activity simultaneously and never get bored with the serious learning in Microbiology, I have curated these links, which I use to direct the class to additional resources throughout the learning. Do you wish to help students discover and discuss the very latest in issues? Encourage them to use Twitter/ Facebook. Soon we will be connected with progressing science and Medicine The fact that these media are generally open to the world implies a need to carefully consider the risks of openness as well as need for ongoing communication with students to address their concerns and deal with issues in the use of social media as they arise. These risks are counter-balanced by the benefits of open discussion and academic debate in authentic online environments. Today even in India > 50% log to online to current aspects for learning verify the matters and to be a able communicator in seminars,
I have compiled a list of blogs and online resources that focus on microbiology with WWW SlideShare and or have a reasonable number of posts about medical microbiology made the matters very simple as many own a smartphone and internet connectivity , just have application Slide Share on your smart phone and access to more than 600 posts in files on most of the undergraduate MBBS program and many for the Post graduates in Medical Microbiology, Today I am happy many teachers use my posts for teaching and many students too access the knowledge, It is time that we can make things better and you can read topics 24x7 x 365, Never to forget the role of Medical teachers is changing we have to make the students to learn better fundamental in what we teach and rest becomes the choice of students to current updates and many seniors may object or averse to internet and we have to accept today's reality lies in online learning.
YOUR SMARTPHONE IS NEXT BEST TEACHER
 VISIT ME AT RAO’S MICROBIOLOGY ON FACEBOOK, @doctorrao at TWITTER WWW slideshare .com and WWW medmicrobes.com
Dr.T.V.Rao MD

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