The Potential Use of “Blogs” in Healthcare Professionals’ Education

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Maag, M. (2004). The Potential Use of “Blogs” in Healthcare Professionals’ Education. In L. Cantoni & C. McLoughlin (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2004 (pp. 1475-1480). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2004
Lugano, Switzerland
2004
ISBN 1-880094-53-3
  Lorenzo Cantoni & Catherine McLoughlin
AACE

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Margaret Maag, University of San Francisco, United States

Abstract

Abstract: Weblogs, also known as "blogs," are an emerging writing tool that are fun and easy to use, Internet based, and hold promise for promoting writing skills for health profession students. Lewis (2004) reports "blogs" as innovative pedagogical aids for students studying different disciplines, such as medicine, business and journalism. The Institute of Medicine (2003) recommends healthcare professionals be trained to use informatics in order to "communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making using information technology" (p. 46). Healthcare professionals require a basic understanding of general informatics competencies, such as word processing, retrieving data from the Internet, communicating via email, listservs, and file transfers. However, the use of "blogs," as educational tools, is not well documented by health profession educators.

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• Information Communication Technologies

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