[Social media and its impact on ophthalmology training]

For the past ten years or so, the emergence of social media has disrupted modes of communication and social interaction, in both the personal and professional arenas; it also plays a major role in medical education. The goal of our work is to assess the current degree of use of social media by ophthalmology residents and its effect on the learning process. Our results show that social media were used by all the residents interviewed; the mean time spent on social media was 3.08±1.98 hours per day, of which 1.08±1.014 minutes were devoted to education; over half of the residents use social media between one and two hours per day for medical education. YouTube is the most widely used social network for medical education, followed by Instagram and Facebook. Ninety-eight percent feel that social media can improve their training; 92% feel that social media may become increasingly more important in medical education.