Is TikTok The Next Social Media Frontier for Medicine?

Overview

Journal AEM Educ Train

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Emergency Medicine

Date 2021 Jun 7

PMID 34095694

Citations 53

Authors

Geoffrey Comp

Sean Dyer

Michael Gottlieb

Affiliations

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