Online digital media: the uptake of YouTube-based digital clinical education (DCE)
Online digital media: the uptake of YouTube-based digital clinical education (DCE)
There has been considerable growth in the uptake of digital clinical education (DCE) over the last few years. This growth has coincided with similar growth in social media platforms available to both educators and learners. In this article, we describe a novel, innovative video-based medical education project using YouTube for teaching, training, and learning. We created a series of short ‘System based’ clinical scenario videos and uploaded it to YouTube. Using the analytics function provided by Google and YouTube, end-user data including viewer engagement, uptake, and comments were then analyzed. To date, the channel has garnered more than 5.5 million views over five years between July 2012-July 2017. With the increase in the use of video-based learning and the popularity of social media platforms, the uptake of DCE is set to increase. YouTube offers a novel approach to streaming medical education for training purposes. A quality assessed, structured and sustainable educational online platform is likely to meet the future requirements of a new generation of learners.
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Rangarajan, Karan
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Begg, Khalil
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Somani, Bhaskar
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2019
Rangarajan, Karan
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Begg, Khalil
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Somani, Bhaskar
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Rangarajan, Karan, Begg, Khalil and Somani, Bhaskar
(2019)
Online digital media: the uptake of YouTube-based digital clinical education (DCE).
American Journal of Distance Education, 33 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/08923647.2019.1582308).
Abstract
There has been considerable growth in the uptake of digital clinical education (DCE) over the last few years. This growth has coincided with similar growth in social media platforms available to both educators and learners. In this article, we describe a novel, innovative video-based medical education project using YouTube for teaching, training, and learning. We created a series of short ‘System based’ clinical scenario videos and uploaded it to YouTube. Using the analytics function provided by Google and YouTube, end-user data including viewer engagement, uptake, and comments were then analyzed. To date, the channel has garnered more than 5.5 million views over five years between July 2012-July 2017. With the increase in the use of video-based learning and the popularity of social media platforms, the uptake of DCE is set to increase. YouTube offers a novel approach to streaming medical education for training purposes. A quality assessed, structured and sustainable educational online platform is likely to meet the future requirements of a new generation of learners.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 10 April 2019
Published date: 2019
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