About 1 out of 4 U.S. physicians use social media daily to seek out medical information, according to a recent study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
About 1 out of 7 actually contribute content daily to a social media website. More than half stick to physician-only websites. Only 7 percent said they were active on Twitter.
“What did surprise us was the heavy use of online physician-only communities,” said the study’s lead author, Robert Miller, MD, in a statement. “It’s possible that many physicians feel more comfortable with that type of social media instead of a more public space like Twitter or Facebook.”
