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Nowadays, there are now more than 4 billion people around the world using the internet. Over half of the world’s population is now online. Social media use continues to grow rapidly too, and the number of people using the top platform in each country has increased by almost one million new users every day during the past 12 months.

Undoubtedly, the use of social networks has spread throughout the urological community and its benefits have been demonstrated in the transmission of scientific knowledge. The way knowledge is generated, distributed and stored is a critical topic for any health professional who wants to give the best care to patients. Scientific knowledge is continuously evolving, especially in the technological era we are living; therefore its dissemination is critical in the evolution of our field.

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  1. Department of Urology, Clinico San Carlos Hospital, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Gómez Rivas

  2. Department of Surgery, S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

    Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh

  3. ICUA (Instituto de Cirugia Urologica Avazada), Madrid, Spain

    Moises Rodriguez Socarrás

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Gómez Rivas, J., Teoh, J.YC., Rodriguez Socarrás, M. (2021). Social Media and E-Learning. In: Veneziano, D., Huri, E. (eds) Urologic Surgery in the Digital Era. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63948-8_14

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