[Social media and its impact on ophthalmology training].

For the past ten years or so, the emergence of social media has disrupted modes of communication and social interaction, in both the personal and professional arenas; it also plays a major role in medical education. The goal of our work is to assess the current degree of use of social media by ophthalmology residents and its effect on the learning process. Our results show that social media were used by all the residents interviewed; the mean time spent on social media was 3.