{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,16]],"date-time":"2026-09-16T02:01:18Z","timestamp":1789524078294,"version":"build-2803163510"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Pak J Med Sci"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the social media practices and attitudes towards e-professionalism among undergraduate medical students in a medical college of Pakistan.\r\nMethods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 220 undergraduate medical students from 2nd to final-year MBBS, at CMH Lahore Medical College from March to August 2022. After ethical approval, a printed questionnaire was distributed among students, selected by stratified random sampling technique. Data on demographics, social media usage, and attitudes toward e-professionalism was collected using the pre-validated SMePROF scale. Chi-squared, Fisher\u2019s exact test, and the Mann-Whitney U test were used to analyze the results.\r\nResults: Responses from 220 students were analyzed. Most students were active social media users, spending 5.5\u00b14.38 hours daily on Instagram (82.3%) and Facebook (80%). Male students were less likely to accept friend requests from the patients than females (p=0.009). While overall responsible online behavior was observed, attitudes towards e-professionalism varied. Pre-Clinical students were more likely to post pictures from the workplace than Clinical students (p=0.009). Females majorly supported social media bans (p=0.018), while males were more interested in keeping up with trends (p=0.022). Pre-clinical students favored more freedom in using social media for patient interaction (p=0.034).\r\nConclusion: This study highlights the widespread social media usage among medical students and its impact on e-professionalism. Gender and academic seniority influence social media practices and e-professionalism. These findings emphasize the importance of targeted education and policies to promote more responsible use of social media and e-professionalism in the health sector.\r\ndoi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.41.1.8644\r\nHow to cite this: Khan HS, Rabbani MA, Ikram F. Assessment of attitude towards e-professionalism: Students\u2019 perspectives from a Private Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan. Pak J Med Sci. 2025;41(1):163-170. doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.41.1.8644\r\nThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.12669\/pjms.41.1.8644","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,24]],"date-time":"2024-12-24T17:48:22Z","timestamp":1735062502000},"page":"163-170","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Assessment of attitude towards e-professionalism: Students\u2019 perspectives from a Private Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan"],"prefix":"10.12669","volume":"41","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3855-5154","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Huma","family":"Saeed Khan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Muhammad Ali","family":"Rabbani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Faiza","family":"Ikram","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"4935","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,24]]},"container-title":["Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/8644\/2546","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/8644\/2546","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,9]],"date-time":"2026-05-09T11:30:22Z","timestamp":1778326222000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/view\/8644"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,24]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,23]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.41.1.8644","relation":{},"ISSN":["1681-715X","1682-024X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1681-715X","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1682-024X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,24]]}}}