title: Medical professionalism: a tale of two doctors.
abstract: The AMA's social media guidelines provide physicians with some basic rules for maintaining professional boundaries when engaging in online activities. Left unanswered are questions about how these guidelines are to be implemented by physicians of different generations. By examining the issues of privacy and technological skill through the eyes of digital natives and digital immigrants, the challenges associated with medical e-professionalism become clear.
authors.affiliation: Division of Postgraduate Medical Education, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. USA. tristan.gorrindo@mgh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Tristan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gorrindo
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Groves
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D000367:Age Factors; D000574:American Medical Association; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000941:ethics; D010820:Physicians / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D018907:Privacy; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012931:Social Environment; D014481:United States