Med Student Gone Wild

[Jennet]

A friend found this gem about med students and Facebook on NPR's Health Blog. The comments are worth a read.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/09/med_students_gone_wild_on_facebook.html

Results of a survey of med school administrators found a fair amount of unseemly online conduct by their students. Among the 78 med schools that responded to the survey, 60 percent reported incidents of students posting unprofessional content on the Web.

What were the common problems? The usual Facebook fare: profanity, depictions of intoxication and sexually suggestive material. Some of the more troubling examples went further, though, including violations of patient confidentiality—reported by 13 percent of responding schools—and "frankly discriminatory language" reported by 4 percent. The findings appear in the current issue of JAMA.

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[235788]

A friend found this gem about med students and Facebook on NPR's Health Blog. The comments are worth a read.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/09/med_students_gone_wild_on_facebook.html

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They're people too. It's not like they're doing anything illegal. F what the boomers think!

 

[mmmcdowe]

I will be very interested to see how facebook and other sites have changed by the time that I am an attending.

 

[catzzz88]

I don't understand what the issue is. Physicians are perfect. Residents, medical students, pre-medical students, youth that aspire to be physicians, and even prenatal fetuses that will soon aspire to be physicians are perfect. If you are not perfect, find another profession. These sluts and lushes that post pictures of themselves in tank tops while drinking ethanol and shouting profanity should be ashamed of themselves. They should be fired. Would you want your surgeon to perform surgery on you while wearing shorts and drinking from a flask containing ethanol while cursing at you?!?! NO!?!?! Then sign this petition to fire all physicians:

1.) Unrealistic Idiot
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[tantacles]

I don't understand what the issue is. Physicians are perfect. Residents, medical students, pre-medical students, youth that aspire to be physicians, and even prenatal fetuses that will soon aspire to be physicians are perfect. If you are not perfect, find another profession. These sluts and lushes that post pictures of themselves in tank tops while drinking ethanol and shouting profanity should be ashamed of themselves. They should be fired. Would you want your surgeon to perform surgery on you while wearing shorts and drinking from a flask containing ethanol while cursing at you?!?! NO!?!?! Then sign this petition to fire all physicians:

1.) Unrealistic Idiot
2.) Sarcastic Sidekick
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5.)

 

[mmmcdowe]

1.) Unrealistic Idiot
2.) Sarcastic Sidekick
3.) Future leader of the Resistance
4.)
5.)

 

[AllDaWEI]

I don't understand what the issue is. Physicians are perfect. Residents, medical students, pre-medical students, youth that aspire to be physicians, and even prenatal fetuses that will soon aspire to be physicians are perfect. If you are not perfect, find another profession. These sluts and lushes that post pictures of themselves in tank tops while drinking ethanol and shouting profanity should be ashamed of themselves. They should be fired. Would you want your surgeon to perform surgery on you while wearing shorts and drinking from a flask containing ethanol while cursing at you?!?! NO!?!?! Then sign this petition to fire all physicians:

1.) Unrealistic Idiot
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3.)
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5.)

No one is perfect. They are just morally superior.

 

[tantacles]

No one is perfect. They are just morally superior.

Sign the damn petition, pokefreak.

 

[235788]

Its just people who were lame in college, preaching to modern day fornicators that they are not pure/ethical people. Its not like these people party while on the job. Who cares if you're surgeon goes out on the weekends, gets hammered, and goes home with 3 woman. Its not like he shows up drunk to work.

I think the story would be a lot different if the students were doing 72 hour coke binges or getting high on peyote, and then showing up to clerkships.

 

[ppfizenm]

1.) Unrealistic Idiot
2.) Sarcastic Sidekick
3.) Future leader of the Resistance
4.) Unaware - of what this petition is for but assume signing means free food - man
5.)

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

1.) Unrealistic Idiot
2.) Sarcastic Sidekick
3.) Future leader of the Resistance
4.) Unaware - of what this petition is for but assume signing means free food - man
5.) Obscene ethanol-chugging short-jort-wearing party-rocking nonprofessional

Edit: This article is over two years old...most people have learned to adjust their privacy settings by now.

 

[dbeast]

Its just people who were lame in college, preaching to modern day fornicators that they are not pure/ethical people. Its not like these people party while on the job. Who cares if you're surgeon goes out on the weekends, gets hammered, and goes home with 3 woman. Its not like he shows up drunk to work.

I think the story would be a lot different if the students were doing 72 hour coke binges or getting high on peyote, and then showing up to clerkships.

Speak for yourself...

 

[ppfizenm]

Med students gone wild? I've been looking for a way to supplement my lack of income in med school.

 

[KnuxNole]

Aww, I was expecting a video where people party around naked

But yeah, anyone who doesn't live under a rock knows that med students and doctors are still humans. I find no fault in a teacher who was a porn star in the past, or who hit the bong a few times in college to experiment in the past.

 

[gmcguitar4]

What people don't realize is that the internet is not a private place. Everyone is complaining now that business ask for FB passwords of applicants or like some of these students, get disciplinary action for posting obscene comments/pictures. Just don't post it on freakin facebook! Keep your sh** offline and everyone is happy. Just b/c it is YOUR account does not entitle you to complete privacy.. its just the way things are. But they learned the hard way.

 

[circulus vitios]

Admissions committee: We want real people who are interested in medicine, not bookworm nerds!
*Throws real people under the bus because they used the f-word on Facebook*

 

[ppfizenm]

What people don't realize is that the internet is not a private place. Everyone is complaining now that business ask for FB passwords of applicants or like some of these students, get disciplinary action for posting obscene comments/pictures. Just don't post it on freakin facebook! Keep your sh** offline and everyone is happy. Just b/c it is YOUR account does not entitle you to complete privacy.. its just the way things are. But they learned the hard way.

You can be perfectly adept at keeping "your sh** offline" but that doesn't mean someone else won't post something about you or pictures of you. They are introducing legislation to make it illegal for businesses to ask for that information btw.

 

[Sephiroth]

What people don't realize is that the internet is not a private place. Everyone is complaining now that business ask for FB passwords of applicants or like some of these students, get disciplinary action for posting obscene comments/pictures. Just don't post it on freakin facebook! Keep your sh** offline and everyone is happy. Just b/c it is YOUR account does not entitle you to complete privacy.. its just the way things are. But they learned the hard way.

If it's something only you can see on your account, then yes it does entitle you to privacy. What is the difference between getting on someone's fb account and reading their PMs versus reading someone's email? And if I had a private note or PM to myself I was using as a diary or saving other private information or something to myself with the expectation that no one else can see it, how is that different from reading one's diary and private documents?

 

[kpcrew]

misleading title, thread did not deliver 2.3/10

 

[Hipster]

disappointing title:content ratio

and who cares? as long as it doesn't affect patients they should be allowed to post what they want on facebook

 

[tantacles]

misleading title, thread did not deliver 2.3/10

 

[kpcrew]

yeeeehhh dat panda
that's more like it

 

[druggeek]

Sounds like some people are mad they were virgins until 30.

 

[tantacles]

Sounds like some people are mad they were virgins until 30.

The 40-year-old virgin's got nothing on me. 63 and counting.

 

[tantacles]

yeeeehhh dat panda
that's more like it

I learned all my trolling skills from you.

 

[druggeek]

The 40-year-old virgin's got nothing on me. 63 and counting.

i would hung the rope at 45


or jus spent 150 bucks...

 

[tantacles]

i would hung the rope at 45


or jus spent 150 bucks...

In South Boston, they only cost $20.

They get the job done, you know?

 

[druggeek]

In South Boston, they only cost $20.

They get the job done, you know?

I prefer them HIV negative though.

 

[tantacles]

I prefer them HIV negative though.

Wear a jacket.

 

[NickNaylor]

I was pleasantly surprised at the comments. I'm used to the terrible crap on Yahoo news articles.

 

[ElleWoodsMD]

One of my favorite blogs is written by an ER attending who tells all of his patients' business. Psh.