The Role of Social Media in Psychiatry Recruitment: a Survey of Program Directors.
Evelyn AshiofuLia A ThomasPublished in: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2021)
This study shows that the majority of program directors surveyed are not formally using applicants' social media profiles in psychiatry residency recruitment. Program directors are performing this practice informally, however, and are interested in formal guidance in this area. Given the increasing dialogue regarding social media use in medicine, future studies should assess for what constitutes unprofessional behavior as well as creation of more formal guidelines to help program directors.