Doctors Can’t Be Doctors All Of The Time: A qualitative study of how general practitioners and medical students negotiate public-professional and private-personal realms using social media

Authors

Megan Marshall, University of Limerick
Vikram Niranjan, University College Dublin
Eimear Spain, University College Dublin
Joe MacDonagh, Technological University DublinFollow
Jane O'Doherty, University of Limerick
Raymond O'Connor, University of Limerick
Andrew O'Regan, University of Limerick

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

3. MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES, Public and environmental health

Abstract

The objective of this study is to explore the experiences and perspectives of general practitioners’ and medical students’ use of, and behaviour on, social media and to understand how they negotiate threats to professional and personal life on social media.

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-047991)

Recommended Citation

Marshal, M., Niranjan, V. & Spain, E. (2021). Doctors can’t be doctors all of the time’: a qualitative study of how general practitioners and medical students negotiate public-professional and private-personal realms using social media. BMJ Open, vol. 11, no. 10. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047991