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• Social media communication in the digital medical space: A #cysticfibrosis és a #Asthma Big Data összehasonlító elemzése

  143-180.

  Simon Sara

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  29

  In the environment of 21st century technology, the transformation of information acquisition
  of health care and patients has had an increasing emphasis. Despite the earlier authoritative
  doctor-patient relationship, a need for an equal, cooperation-based communication has emerged
  and there are so many digital healthcare projects to achieve this (Koskova 2015).
  Information acquisition on the internet has allowed patients that based on the increasingly
  available medical information they acquire information about their condition, become part of
  patient communities, ask for second opinions, and become committed helpers of their doctors in
  their disease (Meskó et. al 2017).
  This can be especially true for patients with rare diseases, where a diagnosis might take even
  a decade, the patient needs lifelong condition maintenance and treatment, if it is available. While the proportion of patients with rare diseases is low compared to the whole of society, the number of such patients is approximately 30 million in Europe (EURORDIS), which means patients
  and their relatives need not only a harmonized health care system, but extensive information so
  that they can live with the rare disease with less difficulty.
  The aim of our study was to present the options of information acquisition in the social
  media, focusing on Twitter, via an interdisciplinary and social approach. In this study therefore
  we carried out a Big Data based social media analysis based on #Asthma and #CysticFibrosis
  databases of the Symplur corporation. This study results contain the complete online communication of 7 years (2012-2019) regarding these hashtags. The analysis has few levels including
  semantic research, stakeholder and hashtag review, engagement, and the whole tweet activity
  exploration.

• The place and role of field studies in teaching medical sociology

  44-55

  Anna Susánszky

  Éva Susánszky

  Zsuzsa Győrffy

  Zsuzsa Szántó

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  43

  Introduction: The goals of the subject of Medical sociology are to familiarize and explain the relationships between social environment and health. The theoretical and practical elements of the medical sociology education and the field studies that form a part of practical work serve these goals. During filed studies, we build on the previous knowledge and experience of the
  students. Method: The themes of the field studies change from semester to semester. From the series of studies we picked three themes that were connected to and built on each other. We present the role of field studies through their description and the explanation of our experiences. Results: Field studies add empirical skills and experience to the knowledge acquired during the
  theoretical and practical training of medical sociology. The field study assignments also serve to strengthen the effects of the “hidden curriculum”, the process of the indirect professional socialization at the medical school. Furthermore, the new knowledge and skills give the students a better understanding of the scientific literature helping them in the interpretation of statistical
  and methodological aspects of biomedical results and concepts. Conclusion: Our experiences show that field studies are an efficient teaching method. Its most important outcome is sensitizing medical students towards health related social problems and helping them to understand and handle such problems.

• Themes of medical profession and professional socialization in medical sociology textbooks

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  Éva Susánszky

  Zsuzsa Szántó

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  35

  Introduction: The present study examines the information on the medical profession and how the changes occurring in the medical practice, the social role and the evaluation of the physician are reflected in the English and Hungarian language medical sociology textbooks used in Hungary. Method: We analyzed chapters of Hungarian language medical sociology textbooks of the
  last 25 years that discuss medical profession and student choices, and textbooks used in English language courses of Semmelweis University. Results: The corpus of the Hungarian textbooks (history of medical profession, medical role models, models of doctor-patient relationships, medical socialization) stayed relatively unchanged. While preserving the myth of the medical profession, there are criticisms towards the role and relationship models. The theme of the medical education gradually disappears from the
  English language textbooks. The social positions of the medical profession and health care are discussed in a broader context, focusing on the health care system and health care provision, incorporating the allied professions, and taking aspects of patients/consumers into greater consideration. Summary: Both textbook types reflect on the changes in the social position of the medical profession. However, the English literature approaches the modernization processes from the angles of the health care system and health care provision, resulting in the diminishing importance of the topic of medical profession while the Hungarian literature focuses on the profession and professional education of physicians.