Visibility of Board-Certified Dermatologists on TikTok

Chaitra Subramanyam; Alyssa Becker; Julianne Rizzo; Najiba Afzal; Yvonne Nong; Raja Sivamani

doi:10.2196/46085

Visibility of Board-Certified Dermatologists on TikTok

JMIR Dermatol. 2024 Jan 5:7:e46085. doi: 10.2196/46085.

Authors

Chaitra Subramanyam^#¹, Alyssa Becker², Julianne Rizzo³, Najiba Afzal³, Yvonne Nong⁴, Raja Sivamani⁵

Affiliations

¹ College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest, Western University of Health Sciences, Lebanon, OR, United States.
² John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States.
³ College of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States.
⁴ College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Flint, MI, United States.
⁵ Pacific Skin Institute, Sacramento, CA, United States.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 38180786
PMCID: PMC10799275
DOI: 10.2196/46085

Abstract

Tik Tok is an emerging social media platform that provides a novel opportunity for health practitioners such as dermatologists to disseminate accurate health information.

Keywords: TikTok; board; board certification; cellulitis; certification; derm; derma; dermatitis; dermatologist; dermatology; diagnosis; epidermis; hair; health; health information; media; media content; medical training; misinformation; nail; public; skin; skin doctor; social; social media; training; users.

©Chaitra Subramanyam, Alyssa Becker, Julianne Rizzo, Najiba Afzal, Yvonne Nong, Raja Sivamani. Originally published in JMIR Dermatology (http://derma.jmir.org), 05.01.2024.