How do Japanese medical students use social media? A large multicenter survey of platform preferences and career decision-making.

IF 2.3 4区医学 Q2 SURGERY

Surgery Today Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-04 DOI:10.1007/s00595-026-03328-7

Takehito Yamamoto, Koya Hida, Shin Ishihara, Soichi Murakami, Yusuke Yamane, Tatsuya Kinjo, Misako Kinoshita, Kenta Horimukai, Atsushi Otsuka, Hideki Takami, Kazutaka Obama

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Abstract

Purpose: Social media has emerged as an important tool for disseminating information to medical students; however, their platform preferences and usage purposes remain unclear.

Methods: We conducted a multicenter web-based survey of medical students from eight Japanese medical schools in 2025, assessing their overall social media use, platform preferences by purpose, daily usage time, and the perceived usefulness of social media for career decision-making.

Results: A total of 1,515 students participated in this study. YouTube (71.6%), Instagram (65.1%), and X (43.7%) were frequently used platforms, whereas Facebook (1.9%) was rarely used. Platform use differed by academic year: YouTube use was significantly higher among early-year students, whereas X use was significantly more common among advanced-year students (P = 0.043 and P < 0.001, respectively). Overall, 763 respondents (50.4%) perceived social media as useful for career decision-making, with X being used most frequently for this purpose, followed by YouTube and Instagram; this perception was significantly more common among the early-year students (P = 0.005).

Conclusions: These findings provide valuable insights for educators and professional organizations seeking to engage medical students through social media. Understanding these trends is especially important as Japan faces a shortage of surgeons.

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日本医科学生如何使用社交媒体？一个关于平台偏好和职业决策的大型多中心调查。

目的：社会媒体已成为向医学生传播信息的重要工具；然而，他们的平台偏好和使用目的仍不清楚。方法：我们在2025年对来自日本八所医学院的医学生进行了一项多中心的基于网络的调查，评估他们的总体社交媒体使用情况、平台偏好、日常使用时间以及社交媒体对职业决策的感知有用性。结果：共有1515名学生参与了本研究。YouTube（71.6%）、Instagram（65.1%）和X（43.7%）是经常使用的平台，而Facebook（1.9%）很少使用。平台的使用因学年而异：初一学生使用YouTube的频率显著较高，而高年级学生使用X的频率显著较高（P = 0.043和P）。结论：这些发现为教育工作者和专业组织寻求通过社交媒体吸引医学生提供了有价值的见解。在日本面临外科医生短缺的情况下，了解这些趋势尤为重要。

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来源期刊

Surgery Today 医学-外科

CiteScore

4.90

自引率

4.00%

发文量

208

审稿时长

1 months

期刊介绍： Surgery Today is the official journal of the Japan Surgical Society. The main purpose of the journal is to provide a place for the publication of high-quality papers documenting recent advances and new developments in all fields of surgery, both clinical and experimental. The journal welcomes original papers, review articles, and short communications, as well as short technical reports("How to do it"). The "How to do it" section will includes short articles on methods or techniques recommended for practical surgery. Papers submitted to the journal are reviewed by an international editorial board. Field of interest: All fields of surgery.