The influence of social media in minimally invasive surgery education: How surgeons exchange experience and knowledge in these platforms

Abstract

Engagement with social media is increasing within medical professionals. There are many different platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Twitter, Telegram, and so on. Social media is a new and important tool for surgical education. More and more surgeons are joining restricted groups to discuss surgical techniques, manuscripts, etc in a daily basis. It is important that residents and surgeons have a very critical opinion about what they look online. Not everything is good or feasible.

Keywords

• Laparoscopy
• surgical education
• minimally invasive surgery