SOCIAL NETWORKS IN TRAINING IN THE HEALTH AREA
AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW
Abstract
The contemporary technological and cultural scenario has inaugurated innovative methods of promoting health, such as creating spaces to share experiences and reflect on practices, and the development of structures for the ongoing training of health professionals. Furthermore, it has provided opportunities for activities that already existed, such as: teaching, dissemination of knowledge and evaluation of health practices. Through the intelligent interaction of social networks in health education, it is possible to follow the rapid advancement of medicine and health practices. Therefore, the objective of this work is to identify in the literature, through an integrative review, how social networks can contribute to the training of health professionals. The search took place in the Medline (PubMed), EMBASE (Elsevier), and Virtual Health Library (VHL) databases, totaling 07 articles at the end of the search for analysis and construction of the article. When analyzing several studies, it is clear that social networks offer significant opportunities to promote interaction between students and health professionals, encouraging the sharing of information, the debate of clinical cases, access to educational content and engagement in communities of practice.
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