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Characterizing the social media footprint of general surgery residency programs.

Erin M WhiteStefanie C RohdeNensi M RuzgarShin Mei ChanAndrew C EspositoKristin D OliveiraPeter S Yoo
Published in: PloS one (2021)
Most general surgery residencies, especially non-university-based programs, lacked any department or residency accounts across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram by March 2020. These findings highlight opportunities for increased social media engagement and act as a pre-pandemic baseline for future investigations of how the shift to virtual trainee education, recruitment, conferences, and clinical care affect social media use.
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