Utilization of Instagram by Psychiatry Residency Programs in a Virtual Recruitment World.

Autor: Bernstein SA; Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA. simone.bernstein@wustl.edu., Harmon TG; Indianapolis, IN, USA., Cabañez K; Austin, TX, USA., Wei C; Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, NY, USA., Gold JA; Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry [Acad Psychiatry] 2021 Dec; Vol. 45 (6), pp. 746-750. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 19.
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-021-01548-2
Abstrakt: Objective: Many psychiatry residency programs use Instagram to provide information about their program. This study assesses the content and engagement on psychiatry residency program Instagram accounts.
Methods: A full list of psychiatry programs was gathered from the American Medical Association Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database (FREIDA). FREIDA was used to collect demographic information about a program. Program Instagram accounts were reviewed and assessed for content, and engagement scores were analyzed. Univariate and multivariate regression was used to analyze the information collected from the Instagram accounts.
Results: There are 109 (42.9%) psychiatry residency programs with Instagram accounts; 99 (90.8%) accounts were opened in 2020. Analysis of the content of posts revealed posts with the following themes: 50.5% were departmental, 21.9% were social, 14.9% were other, 10.1% were academic and professional, and 2.6% were educational. Using multivariate regression, a higher total number of followers was correlated with the total number of accounts followed (p ≤ 0.001) and Instagram stories (p = 0.047) (R 2  = 0.579). Engagement score was correlated with a total number of followers (p ≤ 0.001), program size (p = 0.048), and whether an account was active (p = 0.003) (R 2  = 0.450).
Conclusion: Results demonstrate that 2020 led to an increase in the number of psychiatry residency program Instagram accounts and engagement with followers. Instagram provides a way to further promote a program, yet there is room for improvement to diversify the content.
(© 2021. Academic Psychiatry.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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