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Social media best practices

Residency Program Insider, August 26, 2020

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Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Resident’s Orientation Handbook, Fourth Edition. Click here to order your copies.

You often hear in the news about workers being fired from their jobs because they posted confidential/negative information about their company/coworkers. As social media/networking is most likely a mainstay of your personal life, there are some critical points for you to remember:

• Do not talk about patients or patient care events on social networkingsites. Even without the patient name, the information is stillconfidential.
• Do not take pictures of your patients and share them with your colleaguesbecause you’ve seen a fascinating case—this will undoubtedlymerit a call from the compliance office of your institution.
• Do not poke fun about your patients or your superiors on anynetworking site because it almost always backfires and you can bewritten up for lack of professionalism.
   

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