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Social Media in Medical Education (63) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2388) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1553) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1673) e-Learning and Medical Education (645) New Methods and Approaches in Medical Education (192)

Published on in Vol 7, No 2 (2021): Apr-Jun

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/25892, first published .
Social Media and Medical Education in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

Social Media and Medical Education in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

Social Media and Medical Education in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

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