Twelve tips for developing and implementing a medical education Twitter chat |
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| Authors: | Andrew J. Admon Viren Kaul Sushma K. Cribbs Elizabeth Guzman Odalys Jimenez Jeremy B. Richards |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;2. Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;3. ajadmon@umich.edu;5. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Elmhurst, NY, USA;6. Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA;7. Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, GA, USA;8. American Thoracic Society, New York, NY, USA;9. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
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AbstractLive discussions on the social media site Twitter or Twitter chats are gaining popularity as powerful tools for engaging a broad audience in an interactive discussion. Medical education, in particular, is experiencing an increase in the use of this modality to support informal learning, as a means to encourage collaboration and share best practices, and as a platform for large-scale mentorship. Despite this growth in popularity, there are limited data to guide medical educators on the fundamentals of organizing a Twitter chat. In this Twelve Tips article, we discuss strategies relevant to potential Twitter chat organizers. We have arranged the tips chronologically, beginning with a discussion of initial considerations when planning and formulating a chat topic and publicizing the chat to potentially interested people and groups, followed by practical considerations while hosting the chat, and finally strategies for evaluating and extending a Twitter chat’s impact. |
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