Establishing an Online Educational Teaching File on Instagram for an Academic Radiology Department: Proof-of-Concept.

Instagram is a powerful social media platform, which can serve as the ideal educational companion app for a visually rich discipline such as Radiology. Instagram facilitates easy content creation allowing for educators to utilize this resource for easy and rapid dissemination of educational content. The authors describe their experience of creating an online publicly available radiology teaching file on Instagram as a proof-of-concept, to help other individuals and institutions in leveraging social media to create and share quality educational content for current and future trainees.

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