Fellowship Training Is a Significant Predictor of Sports Medicine Physician Social Media Presence

Brian LaGrant; Sergio M Navarro; Jacob Becker; Hashim Shaikh; Irvin Sulapas; Theodore B Shybut

doi:10.1016/j.asmr.2020.09.010

Fellowship Training Is a Significant Predictor of Sports Medicine Physician Social Media Presence

Brian LaGrant, Sergio M Navarro, Jacob Becker, Hashim Shaikh, Irvin Sulapas, Theodore B Shybut

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Purpose: To quantify social media use of professional sports team physicians on popular platforms and analyze differences between users and nonusers.

Methods: Team physicians for professional sports teams in the National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, and National Basketball Association were identified and characterized based on training background, practice setting, and geographic location. Rates of social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and ResearchGate were determined. Differences between social media users and nonusers were analyzed.

Results: In total, 505 professional team physicians were identified across 4 major professional sports; 64.6% of physicians were orthopaedic surgeons. Of 505 physicians, 65.7% had a social media presence. More specifically, 21.8% had a professional Facebook page, 22.6% a professional Twitter page, 52.1% a LinkedIn profile, 21.4% a ResearchGate profile, and 9.1% an Instagram account. Fellowship-trained physicians (P = .008) had greater odds of having a social media presence.

Conclusions: Nearly two-thirds of professional team physicians have a social media presence, most commonly LinkedIn. Fellowship training is a significant predictor of sports medicine physician social media presence. Sports league affiliation, training background, practice setting, and geographic location are unrelated to social media presence.

Level of Evidence: IV, cross-sectional study.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e199-e204
Journal	Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asmr.2020.09.010
State	Published - Feb 2021

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The authors report the following potential conflicts of interest or sources of funding: T.B.S. reports other from Arthroscopy, The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, Arthroscopy Association of North America, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and Zimmer Biomet; grants from Smith & Nephew; personal fees from DJO Surgical; and other from ROMTech, outside the submitted work. Full ICMJE author disclosure forms are available for this article online, as supplementary material.

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