Social Media Engagement at Academic Conferences: Report of the Association of Pathology Chairs 2018 and 2019 Annual Meeting Social Media Committee

Ziemba, Yonah; Razzano, Dana; Allen, Timothy Craig; Booth, Adam L.; Anderson, Scott R.; Champeaux, Anne L.; Feldman, Michael D.; Fitzhugh, Valerie A.; Gittens, Simone; Grider, Marilea; Gupta, Mary; Hanos, Christina T.; Kelly, Karen; Kothari, Tarush; Laudadio, Jennifer; Lin, Amy; Mirza, Kamran; Montone, Kathleen T.; Prieto, Víctor G.; Remick, Daniel G.; Riddle, Nicole D.; Schubert, Michael; Suskie, Kelley; Zafar, Nadeem; Robboy, Stanley J.; Markwood, Priscilla S.

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“…Pathologists, trainees, and pathology-interested medical students are able to interact with each other through “live” posting at academic conferences 35 and engage with each other through virtual journal clubs and promoting scholarly activity 36–38 . Through social media, pathologists from institutions all around the world have even been able to conceptualize, coordinate, and publish international, multicenter pathology studies using social media hashtags 39 .…”

Section: The Importance Of Social Media In Pathologymentioning

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#PathMastodon: An Up-In-Coming Platform for Pathology Education Among Pathologists, Trainees, and Medical Students

Schukow,

Punjabi,

Gardner

2023

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

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Social media use in pathology has continued to grow and become more mainstream among pathologists, trainees, and medical students over the past decade. Twitter has historically been (and still seems to be) a positive platform for the social media pathology community to engage with each other virtually (ie, PathTwitter). However, as a new era of Twitter leadership began to unfold in October 2022, a young platform called “Mastodon” began to gain notice within this community as the hashtag #PathMastodon became prevalent. Founded in 2016 by Eugen Rochko, Mastodon is a decentralized, open-sourced, ads-free platform intended to promote public knowledge in a safe and public manner. When compared with Twitter, however, Mastodon is globally much smaller, and its medical professional server called “Med-Mastodon” is more cumbersome with certain features (eg, tracking analytics and username changes). Nevertheless, this new platform, which looks and feels much like Twitter, has great potential to provide continued medical education and virtual excellence among the social media pathology community. Thus, the purpose of this review is to provide a relevant synopsis of how Mastodon, Med-Mastodon, and #PathMastodon may benefit pathologists, trainees, and medical students who use social media. A qualitative analysis of pertinent peer-reviewed and non–peer-reviewed materials relative to the topic will be performed. In addition, we will provide a comparison of Mastodon and Twitter, provide example figures of #PathMastodon and related posts, and elaborate on the importance this discussion brings to the social media pathology community.

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Section: The Importance Of Social Media In Pathologymentioning

confidence: 99%

#PathMastodon: An Up-In-Coming Platform for Pathology Education Among Pathologists, Trainees, and Medical Students

Schukow,

Punjabi,

Gardner

2023

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

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“…Таким образом, обсуждение содержания докладов в соцсетях помогает не только распространению новых знаний, но и совместному обучению и взаимодействию врачей [25]. В результате генерируется полезный, информативный и качественный материал, прошедший равноправную экспертизу (peer review) [26,27].…”

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Medical scientific conferences and social networks

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Introduction. Medical conferences are a key source of new and relevant knowledge for practicing physicians. Physicians use social media to share this knowledge with their colleagues. As a result, there is a lot of discussion on social media about the topics covered in the scientific presentations. This initiative has some educational value, which is being actively explored. The discussions around such posts make ideas, insights, opinions and experiences of peer-colleagues easily available. They also immediately raise awareness of new clinical research and scientific data.Objective. We studied how often Russian physicians use available social networks (vrachirf.ru, doktornarabote.ru. vk.com) to share information from scientific conferences with their colleagues.Materials and мethods. We searched for posts using keywords related to medical conferences and selected among the search results the entries whose authors, as physicians, disclosed selected elements of the content of scientific presentations.Results. We identified 65 entries over the past 4–12 months where physicians shared facts and ideas presented at scientific conferences. Entries posted on professional physicians’ social networks with access restricted to lay public generated vigorous meaningful discussions, unlike posts on the mainstream social network vk.com.Conclusions. Doctors very rarely share on social media the facts and ideas presented at Russian scientific medical conferences. Physicians demonstrate significant interest in these posts and actively discuss them. Further study should reveal the educational potential of the described phenomenon and suggest the pathways to its effective utilization.

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“…Outside of COVID-19, there is sparse research on Twitter as a healthcare communications venue for HEs. A few studies focus on tweeting during professional conferences (Salzmann-Erikson, 2017;Lemay et al, 2019;Ziemba et al, 2020), and one study that examined the #TipsForNewDocs hashtag (Rashid et al, 2018). Research on the differences in Republican and Democrat politicians are more plentiful.…”

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COVID-19 Tweets of Governors and Health Experts

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As COVID-19 spread throughout the United States, governors and health experts (HEs) received a surge in followers on Twitter. This paper seeks to investigate how HEs, Democratic governors, and Republican governors discuss COVID-19 on Twitter. Tweets dating from January 1st, 2020 to October 18th, 2020 from official accounts of all fifty governors and 46 prominent U.S.-based HEs were scraped using python package Twint (N = 192,403) and analyzed using a custom-built wordcount program (Twintproject, 2020). The most significant finding is that in 2020, Democratic governors mentioned death at 4.03 times the rate of Republican governors in their COVID-19 tweets. In 2019, Democratic governors still mentioned death at twice the rate of Republicans. We believe we have substantial evidence that Republican governors are less comfortable talking about death than their Democratic counterparts. We also found that Democratic governors tweet about masks, stay-at-home measures, and solutions more often than Republicans. After controlling for state-level variations in COVID-19 data, our regression model confirms that party affiliation is still correlated with the prevalence of tweets in these three categories. However, there isn’t a large difference between the proportion of COVID-19 tweets, tweets about the economy, tweets about vaccines, and tweets containing “science-like” words between governors of the two parties. HEs tweeted about death and vaccines more than the governors. They also tweeted about solutions and testing at a similar rate compared to governors and mentioned lockdowns, the economy, and masks less frequently.

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Social Media Engagement at Academic Conferences: Report of the Association of Pathology Chairs 2018 and 2019 Annual Meeting Social Media Committee

Cited by 9 publications

References 64 publications

#PathMastodon: An Up-In-Coming Platform for Pathology Education Among Pathologists, Trainees, and Medical Students

#PathMastodon: An Up-In-Coming Platform for Pathology Education Among Pathologists, Trainees, and Medical Students

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