TY - JOUR ID - TI - Instagram: A Social Media Tool to Strengthen and Supplement the Delivery of Medical Education AU - Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava AU - Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava1 PY - 2022 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 496 EP - 498 JO - Medical Journal of Babylon مجلة بابل الطبية SN - 1812156X 23126760 AB - The process of transforming young students into competent medical graduates is a challenging one, wherein as teachers, we have toadopt a combination of innovative and traditional teaching-learning approaches to meet the needs of different types of learners. Inthe current era, the majority of teachers and medical students has access to the Internet and use smartphones. Instagram is a socialmedia application that provides a platform for users to share image-based or video-based information. The findings of studies haverevealed that the application has been utilized by teachers to share images dealing with infectious diseases and radio-diagnosis, andthis, in turn, inculcates clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills. To conclude, the utility and reach of social media applications,including Instagram, are increasing among medical students each day. The need of the hour is to acknowledge the scope of the sameand use the same for the benefit of students either in the form of passing specific information or through a structured curriculum toensure attainment of the learning outcomes.

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