To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question

O’Glasser, Avital Y.; Jaffe, Rebecca; Brooks, Michelle

doi:10.1016/j.semnephrol.2020.04.003

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“…Social media offers various channels to aid online education and dissemination of evidence on rapidly changing subjects, particularly on COVID-19 prevention and treatment modalities [34]. Nowadays, #MedEd and #MedTwitter are widely recognised hashtags, and many scholars are embracing powerful microblogging platforms such as Twitter for sharing their comments and arranging online journal clubs [35]. Twitter has emerged as a powerful influencer regarding dissemination of published articles [36].…”

Section: Social Media For Rheumatology Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19

2020

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The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unsettled conventional medical education, hastening a switch to digital platforms and open-access publishing. Rheumatology is a fast evolving academic discipline that stands to gain by this switch. Most rheumatology textbooks are now available in digital formats, and these are complemented with live updating educational hubs such as UpToDate and ClinicalKey. Emerging topics of COVID-19 on these proprietary platforms are now freely available to all specialists. Social media channels, particularly Twitter, are becoming major players in the era of COVID-19 by offering online journal clubs, enabling fast dissemination of influential articles, and facilitating interactive education. Indexed rheumatology journals, in turn, aid online education by opening access to recommendations and other materials that are rapidly changing research and practice worldwide. Research peer review additionally offers learning experience to novice and seasoned researchers and authors. Global rheumatology societies have online learning resources, which are changing their format and geographic reach to meet the changing needs in the times of pandemic. While online teaching lacks emotional connections between mentors and mentees, switch to a more interactive format of education and regular contacts may partly solve the issue. Rheumatologists can take the lead in these challenging times and contribute more to online scholarly activities which are aimed to maintain and enrich education.

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Section: Social Media For Rheumatology Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19

2020

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“…For the past decade, social media has been a tool for building communities of practice, teaching, learning, and networking in medical education 15 . Learners' experience and exploration with social media was largely an unsupervised and independent activity.…”

Section: Guided Social Media Engagementmentioning

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Using a time out: Reimagining professional identity formation after the pandemic

Stetson

Dhaliwal

2020

Medical Education

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Professional identity formation (PIF) is the process by which 'students and residents come to think, act and feel like a physician'. 1 PIF A review of the innovations published in Medical Education'sAdaptations series demonstrated how educators across the world succeeded in not only fostering PIF while students were away from the clinical setting, but also in expanding notions of professionalism and what doctors do.

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“…Visual abstracts are used to accompany scientific articles on various social media platforms that rely heavily on image-based communication. Twitter, specifically, is frequently used to share research findings and generate conversations among medical professionals and scientists [2][3][4][5][6]. Twitter allows physicians, journals, and institutions to disseminate research beyond the traditional readership of scientific publications to a broader audience comprised of researchers, clinicians, and the general public.…”

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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Views: A Triple Crossover Trial of Visual Abstracts to Examine Their Impact on Research Dissemination (Preprint)

Oska¹,

Lerma²,

Topf³

2020

Preprint

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BACKGROUND The visual abstract is a graphic summary of a research article’s question, methods and major findings. Though they have a number of uses, they are chiefly used to promote a research article on social media. OBJECTIVE To determine if the use of visual abstracts increases the visibility of nephrology research shared on Twitter. METHODS A prospective case-control crossover study was conducted using 40 research articles published in the American Journal of Nephrology (AJN). Each article was shared by the AJN Twitter account in 3 formats: as the article citation, as the citation with a key-figure from the article, and as the citation with a visual abstract. Tweets were spaced every two weeks to allow washout of the previous tweet, and the order of the tweets was randomized. Dissemination was measured via retweets, views, number of link clicks, and Altmetric scores. RESULTS Tweets that contain a visual abstract had more than twice as many views as text only tweets (1,351 ± 1,053 vs 639 ± 343) and nearly twice as many views as key-figure tweets (1,351 ± 1,053 vs 732 ± 464). Visual abstract tweets had 5-times the engagements of citation-only and more than 3.5-times the engagements of key-figure tweets. CONCLUSIONS Tweets that contain a visual abstract had more than twice as many views as text only tweets (1,351 ± 1,053 vs 639 ± 343) and nearly twice as many views as key-figure tweets (1,351 ± 1,053 vs 732 ± 464). Visual abstract tweets had 5-times the engagements of citation-only and more than 3.5-times the engagements of key-figure tweets.

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To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question

Cited by 35 publications

References 95 publications

Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19

Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19

Using a time out: Reimagining professional identity formation after the pandemic

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Views: A Triple Crossover Trial of Visual Abstracts to Examine Their Impact on Research Dissemination (Preprint)

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