Removing Barriers of Internationally Trained Physicians for 21ST Century Medicine with Web 2.0 Applications
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Abstract
Objective
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of using Web 2.0 technologies to remove cultural barriers of internationally trained medical physicians in 21st century globalized world.
Background
Physicians’ competencies are significantly enhanced from patient care services and interactions with patients and inter-professional workers within the community in which learning and education take place. Therefore, physicians worldwide become trained under a unique culture of medicine based on the resources and patient care needs available in the specific community/country. The rapid growth of technology is merging the world into one big interconnected mass, delimiting all geographical boundaries, encouraging physicians to migrate globally for upward economic and family mobilization and to keep their medical and scientific interests and discoveries at peak. Social network, Facebook, Blog and Twitter, enhanced with skype, webcast, videoconferencing and youtube, have the capacity for sharing cultures of medicines worldwide while removing barriers that avert integration of physicians into new communities of medicine worldwide.
Method
The author independently reviewed articles and abstracts relevant to the use of Web 2.0 in academic and affiliated medical institutions in relation to medical training and education. A summary of the articles shows that universities and affiliated medical training associations have been the top users of new asynchronous technologies since the 1980’s and has continued this pattern with the use of Web 2.0 tools as well as computer-mediated communications to train doctors and professional leaders. One Canadian University president announced that his university must prepare for a “borderless world.†The Nursing profession has also used Web 2.0 Facebook and Myspace applications to integrate newcomers to the profession and has been successful in developing positive socialization and support.
Results
The review of over 140 abstracts and full text articles reveals that Web 2.0 continue to gain in popularity in the medical profession among physicians and trainees. 10% of the articles reveal the ability to share and critique, find out facts, edit, publish and learn medical and surgical skills on-line with simulations and interactive social media participation. Web 2.0 is becoming the “norm†in the medical community. The copious ability to design programs and applications to allow people to interact is on a worldwide scale. Social media has been the biggest shift since industrialization and medical students and practitioners’ education are vigorously focusing on the use of Web 2.0 application including iPads, tablets and eReaders to enhance collective intelligence of a global audience.
Conclusion
There is evidence of expanding multicultural societies in immigrant countries such as Canada, Australia, the United States and in many European countries with changing patients demographics and medicare needs. Formal education and cultural barriers are “days of old†There is an emerging field of scholarship that merits further investigation in preparing physicians for transferrable health care knowledge and skills in a global setting to meet the emerging 21st century patient care needs. Web 2.0 has the capability to bridge cultural, language, ethics and medical practice gaps that prevent physicians from practicing medicine in foreign countries.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of using Web 2.0 technologies to remove cultural barriers of internationally trained medical physicians in 21st century globalized world.
Background
Physicians’ competencies are significantly enhanced from patient care services and interactions with patients and inter-professional workers within the community in which learning and education take place. Therefore, physicians worldwide become trained under a unique culture of medicine based on the resources and patient care needs available in the specific community/country. The rapid growth of technology is merging the world into one big interconnected mass, delimiting all geographical boundaries, encouraging physicians to migrate globally for upward economic and family mobilization and to keep their medical and scientific interests and discoveries at peak. Social network, Facebook, Blog and Twitter, enhanced with skype, webcast, videoconferencing and youtube, have the capacity for sharing cultures of medicines worldwide while removing barriers that avert integration of physicians into new communities of medicine worldwide.
Method
The author independently reviewed articles and abstracts relevant to the use of Web 2.0 in academic and affiliated medical institutions in relation to medical training and education. A summary of the articles shows that universities and affiliated medical training associations have been the top users of new asynchronous technologies since the 1980’s and has continued this pattern with the use of Web 2.0 tools as well as computer-mediated communications to train doctors and professional leaders. One Canadian University president announced that his university must prepare for a “borderless world.†The Nursing profession has also used Web 2.0 Facebook and Myspace applications to integrate newcomers to the profession and has been successful in developing positive socialization and support.
Results
The review of over 140 abstracts and full text articles reveals that Web 2.0 continue to gain in popularity in the medical profession among physicians and trainees. 10% of the articles reveal the ability to share and critique, find out facts, edit, publish and learn medical and surgical skills on-line with simulations and interactive social media participation. Web 2.0 is becoming the “norm†in the medical community. The copious ability to design programs and applications to allow people to interact is on a worldwide scale. Social media has been the biggest shift since industrialization and medical students and practitioners’ education are vigorously focusing on the use of Web 2.0 application including iPads, tablets and eReaders to enhance collective intelligence of a global audience.
Conclusion
There is evidence of expanding multicultural societies in immigrant countries such as Canada, Australia, the United States and in many European countries with changing patients demographics and medicare needs. Formal education and cultural barriers are “days of old†There is an emerging field of scholarship that merits further investigation in preparing physicians for transferrable health care knowledge and skills in a global setting to meet the emerging 21st century patient care needs. Web 2.0 has the capability to bridge cultural, language, ethics and medical practice gaps that prevent physicians from practicing medicine in foreign countries.
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