Personal reflections on exploring social media in medicine

Thoma, Brent

doi:10.3109/09540261.2015.1005058

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“…The traditional 'publish or perish' approach to academia has been displaced by 'get visible or vanish' (Doyle & Cuthill 2015). Social media provide the possibility of amplifying the voice of researchers beyond the academy (Bombaci et al 2016;Pearce 2015;Thoma 2015) while also enhancing the prospects of traditional scholarly performance measures such as citations (Eysenbach 2011;Ortega 2017). With social media available to anyone with internet access, unlike traditional scholarly outputs which for the most part remain behind paywalls, (social) science has been opened up.…”

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Educational leadership research, Twitter and the curation of followership

Eacott

2020

Leadersh Educ Personal Interdiscip J

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For an applied field, the role of research expertise is of considerable importance. With an increasing number of school leaders turning to social media for their professional learning–as part of a broader digital turn in knowledge generation, distribution, and consumption–the argument of this paper is that the notion of research expertise in educational leadership is shifting. Traditional modes of acquiring and sustaining research capital (e.g., publications, citations, research income) have been replaced by social presence, profile building, and the curation of followership. Building on work claiming there is a 'cult of the guru' in educational leadership, this paper draws on an appropriation of Hall's Kardashian index (K-index) for 50 researchers, an analysis of Twitter user networks using NodelXL, and relational theorizing to investigate the ways in which research expertise is being mobilized / recast by educational leadership researchers on Twitter. Establishing an empirical foundation for ongoing dialogue and debate it is argued that the recasting of research expertise to those curating followership, and potentially divorced from research performance, is of timely significance for the ongoing credibility of the field both internally and within the broader academy.

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Educational leadership research, Twitter and the curation of followership

Eacott

2020

Leadersh Educ Personal Interdiscip J

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“…As of 2015, the Canadian FOAM community comprised approximately 10 unique websites with no comprehensive national platform or consistent engagement with geographically disparate collaborators. These websites were challenged by reliance on a small, junior volunteer workforce and found it difficult to quickly produce quality content …”

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CanadiEM: Accessing a Virtual Community of Practice to Create a Canadian National Medical Education Institution

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Thoma

Luckett-Gatopoulos

et al. 2018

AEM Education and Training

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Background: The rise of free open-access medical education (FOAM) has led to a wide range of online resources in emergency medicine. Canadian physicians have been active contributors to FOAM.Objectives: We aimed to create a virtual community of practice that would serve as a national platform for collaboration, learning, and knowledge dissemination.Methods: CanadiEM was formed in 2016 from the merger of two Canadian websites and a podcast. Using a community-of-practice model, we introduced two training programs to support junior community members in becoming core editorial team members and employed asynchronous Web technologies to facilitate collaboration. We also introduced a coached peer review process and formed strategic alliances that aim to ensure a high quality of publication.Results: CanadiEM has become a portal for readers to access a broad range of FOAM content. The website has published 782 articles. Of these, 71 have undergone a coached peer review process. The website has received over 2.5 million page views from 217 countries, and the associated CRACKCast podcast has been downloaded over 750,000 times.Conclusions: CanadiEM has succeeded in building a national multi-interface dissemination network that fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing in emergency medicine while fostering junior digital scholars. The construction of a community of practice has been facilitated by quality assurance, training programs, and the use of asynchronous Web technologies. Ongoing challenges in sustainability include a volunteer workforce with high turnover.

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“…The DIT is a multiple-choice instrument in which participants read a dilemma and rate 12 related items on a 5-point scale of importance; they then rank-order the rated items in terms of their importance to the dilemma. According to [10], from 70 to 100 studies on average that utilize the DIT and DIT-2 have been conducted annually for the past decade. The DIT-2, created in 1999, provides both a P score and an N2 score.…”

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Impact of a Residence Hall Staff Training Class on the Moral Judgment Development of College Students

Jacques¹,

Anderson²

2017

OALib

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The everyday dilemmas that residence-hall student staff members (RAs) face have become more challenging for the traditional college-aged student to handle. The need for the decisions and actions of our RAs to have a more solid base in their own moral judgment is important. Helping RAs in their moral judgment development is a task or goal that institutions of higher learning can accomplish in many different ways. One approach includes offering these individuals a preparatory course that addresses various dilemmas and ways they might handle them in their staff positions. How successful is this approach? This study focused on the impact of Resident Assistant training on the development of moral judgment of college students as measured by the Defining Issues Test-2. The research method incorporated pretest-posttest nonequivalent comparison-group and posttest-only control group designs. The findings suggest that students who set out to be RAs are predisposed to a higher level of post conventional moral judgment than students who do not pursue RA training, and completing a RA selection course may influence the development of moral judgement.

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Personal reflections on exploring social media in medicine

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Educational leadership research, Twitter and the curation of followership

Educational leadership research, Twitter and the curation of followership

CanadiEM: Accessing a Virtual Community of Practice to Create a Canadian National Medical Education Institution

Impact of a Residence Hall Staff Training Class on the Moral Judgment Development of College Students

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