Even Med Students Abuse YouTube
Sep 27th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Money, News
We figure the lapse between the moment someone achieves a major technological breakthrough and the moment someone else does something stupid with it is around 48 hours. So it was with YouTube, where we’ve seen taggers get themselves sent to prison, Burger King (BKC) employees bathing in restaurant sinks, and other examples too numerous to mention. But we never thought the nation’s medical students would disgrace their future profession on YouTube. That’s because we don’t have much of an imagination—of course they would!
In a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, an astonishing number of medical students are using Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to post unprofessional and immature messages, sometimes compromising the privacy of patients they are supposed to care for. Sixty percent of medical schools reported that students posted comments about their partying habits, including the use of drugs, sexually suggestive remarks, and racist slurs. According to CNN, 13 percent of medical schools surveyed reported that students wrote about patients in enough detail to identify them, publishing the material on personal blogs or Facebook pages. Lead study author Katherine Chretien rather glumly told CNN, “We expected to find incidents of unprofessionalism, but the number was higher than expected.”
As for YouTube, the study found that medical students often posted mostly harmless films of themselves performing musical numbers in dorms and laboratories. But on at least one occasion, students filmed themselves pranking an anatomy lab instructor by rigging a corpse to jerk around. “I watched it and I definitely cringed,” Chretien told the Associated Press. “Disrepect for cadavers is one thing, but filming it and putting it on YouTube is another. It undermines the credibility of our profession.”
And of course, because it’s on YouTube, we can show it to you right here:
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