The Network That Never Sleeps

Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay; Kanakis, Constantine; Golab, Kathryn; Hermelin, Daniela; Crane, Genevieve M.; Mirza, Kamran

doi:10.1093/labmed/lmaa113

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on medical education. Pathologists all over the world have developed innovative solutions to deliver education to students, including via social | O r i g i n a l a r t i c l e media, 8,9 web-based training such as PathElective.com, 10 and individual online courses. 4,5 We sought to address the specific need for visiting pathology rotations, in which students participate for the purposes of education as well as evaluation of an individual residency program.…”

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Implementation and Effectiveness of a Completely Virtual Pathology Rotation for Visiting Medical Students

Koch

Correll-Buss

Chang

2021

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

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Objectives Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) upended in-person medical education, relocating many activities online. We designed a completely virtual pathology rotation to replace our traditional visiting rotation. Methods The virtual away rotation was listed in the Visiting Student Application Service (VSAS) and advertised on social media as well as various medical student mailing lists. Nine students were selected to participate in three month-long rotations. The virtual curriculum mirrored our typical in-person clerkship with didactic lectures and daily signout but also included activities exclusive to the virtual rotation such as digitally scanned slide trays and small-group problem-based learning. Anonymous surveys were conducted in which both participants and instructors rated their experiences. Results Postrotation feedback was overwhelmingly positive from both participants and instructors. Students considered virtual slide sessions as the most effective teaching tool and did not feel hindered overall by lack of in-person experiences. Volunteer trainee instructors indicated the experience improved their teaching and diagnostic skills and expressed interest in teaching future virtual courses. Conclusions The success of the virtual away rotation raises consideration for applications beyond the pandemic era and may provide a more level playing field for medical students from underrepresented groups.

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Implementation and Effectiveness of a Completely Virtual Pathology Rotation for Visiting Medical Students

Koch

Correll-Buss

Chang

2021

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

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“…They can be useful to provide feedback to contentcreators regarding the quality and visibility of their posts. These same metrics inform how journals track the impact of their articles and academics illustrate the reach of a teacher/scholar's work (5,14,18). While we are not aware of a specific study to do so to date, social media analytics could feasibly represent a useful tool to help quantify pathology knowledge acquisition in Nigeria.…”

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“…Two years later, this number almost doubled (17). Pathology-related posts can be readily searched for by using the hashtag #PathTwitter, with many other specific tags for organ systems or subspecialties (e.g., #Dermpath for Dermatopathology and #GIpath for Gastrointestinal Pathology) or branches of pathology (e.g., #Cytopath for Cytopathology and #ForensicPath for Forensic Pathology) (7,14,18). See Appendix for Supplementary Information.…”

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“…was selected to be on the team of international screening judges that curate and vote for tweets nominated for PathTweetAward. This Twitter-based, crowd-funded initiative founded by Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD (@smlungpathguy) and Amy Deeken, MD (@AmyHDeekenMD) in April 2018 seeks to promote educational Twitter posts by awarding prizes in open and trainee categories (18). Furthermore, we have seen the effects of Twitter promoting development of "real life" mentors.…”

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The Influence of Social Media in Promoting Knowledge Acquisition and Pathology Excellence in Nigeria

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The use of social media has evolved from platforms designed primarily for social connection and news sharing to include vibrant virtual academic environments. These platforms allow pathologists from across the globe to interact, exchange knowledge, and collaborate. Pathology in Nigeria, as in much of Africa, faces severe knowledge and practice gaps, with a lack of supporting modern laboratory infrastructure. Social media represents a potentially highly valuable avenue to help address some of these deficiencies. In this Perspective piece, we highlight our experience with the increasing role of social media in providing quality medical education in pathology globally, with an emphasis on how it bridges many of these gaps in Nigeria. Social media sites serve as sources of readily accessible, free, high-quality information to pathologists and trainees through academic discussions, quizzes, journal clubs, and informal consultations. They also provide opportunities for professional networking and research collaborations. Despite the availability and wide reach of these platforms, social media as a tool for advancement of knowledge in pathology is still undersubscribed in this part of the world. Improving awareness of and support for these tools will ideally help mitigate some of the challenges of practicing pathology in low and middle-income settings.

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“…More recently, social media and virtual platforms present new opportunities for outreach. Basics for academics about social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, the design elements valued by user communities and the drawbacks of different platforms, have been described in detail elsewhere (Cheplygina et al, 2020;Deeken et al, 2020;Habibi & Salim, 2021;Klar et al, 2020;Mukhopadhyay et al, 2021;Stofer et al, 2020). We note though, that social media platform tools and communities can experience relatively rapid changes and research effort for the professional utility of these platforms is highly variable.…”

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Integrative approaches to dispersing science: A case study of March Mammal Madness

Amorim

Dasari

Durgavich

et al. 2021

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives: Public engagement is increasingly viewed as an important pillar of scientific scholarship. For early career and established scholars, navigating the mosaic landscape of public education and science communication, noted for rapid "ecological" succession, can be daunting. Moreover, academics are characterized by diverse skills, motivations, values, positionalities, and temperaments that may differentially incline individuals to particular public translation activities.Methods: Here we briefly contextualize engagement activities within a scholarly portfolio, describe the use of one public education program-March Mammal Madness (MMM)-to highlight approaches to science communication, and explore essential elements and practical considerations for creating and sustaining outreach pursuits in tandem with other scholarly activities. Results: MMM, an annual simulated tournament of living and fossil animal taxa, has reached hundreds of thousands of learners since 2013. This program has provided a platform to communicate research findings from biology and anthropology and showcase numerous scholars in these fields. MMM has leveraged tournament devices to intentionally address topics of climate change, capitalist environmental degradation, academic sexism, and racist settler-colonialism. The tournament, however, has also perpetuated implicit biases that need disrupting.Conclusions: By embracing reflexive, self-interrogative, and growth attitudes, the tournament organizers iteratively refine and improve this public science education program to better align our activities with our values and goals. Our experiences with MMM suggest that dispersing science is most sustainable when we combine ancestral adaptations for cooperation, community, and storytelling with good-natured competition in the context of shared experiences and shared values.

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The Network That Never Sleeps

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

Implementation and Effectiveness of a Completely Virtual Pathology Rotation for Visiting Medical Students

Implementation and Effectiveness of a Completely Virtual Pathology Rotation for Visiting Medical Students

The Influence of Social Media in Promoting Knowledge Acquisition and Pathology Excellence in Nigeria

Integrative approaches to dispersing science: A case study of March Mammal Madness

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