A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Twitter by Emergency Medicine Residency Programs

Diller, David; Yarris, Lalena M.

doi:10.4300/jgme-d-16-00716.1

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“…Medical Education. This theme shows the research on using Twitter for medical education purposes such as online discussion on program evaluation [109] and research papers [110], professional development [111], and utilizing Twitter in emergency medicine residency programs [112] and medical conferences [113]. Having a significant change, the medical education theme have a decreasing trend.…”

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Twitter and Research: A Systematic Literature Review Through Text Mining

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Researchers have collected Twitter data to study a wide range of topics. This growing body of literature, however, has not yet been reviewed systematically to synthesize Twitter-related papers. The existing literature review papers have been limited by constraints of traditional methods to manually select and analyze samples of topically related papers. The goals of this retrospective study are to identify dominant topics of Twitter-based research, summarize the temporal trend of topics, and interpret the evolution of topics withing the last ten years. This study systematically mines a large number of Twitter-based studies to characterize the relevant literature by an efficient and effective approach. This study collected relevant papers from three databases and applied text mining and trend analysis to detect semantic patterns and explore the yearly development of research themes across a decade. We found 38 topics in more than 18,000 manuscripts published between 2006 and 2019. By quantifying temporal trends, this study found that while 23.7% of topics did not show a significant trend (P => 0.05), 21% of topics had increasing trends and 55.3% of topics had decreasing trends that these hot and cold topics represent three categories: application, methodology, and technology. The contributions of this paper can be utilized in the growing field of Twitter-based research and are beneficial to researchers, educators, and publishers. INDEX TERMS Literature review, social media, survey, text mining, topic modeling, Twitter.

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Twitter and Research: A Systematic Literature Review Through Text Mining

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“…Pharmacy educators have incorporated social media into teaching and precepting strategies to increase exposure to novel ideas and practices, and to educate learners on the utility of Twitter as a professional resource 3‐5 . While the presence of the medical community on Twitter, including medical residencies, 6 has seen continuous growth in recent years, pharmacy residency programs have only just begun to realize the merits of this platform. Instagram and Facebook are additional social media platforms with the capability to highlight program activity; however, they are generally less established from a pharmacy community standpoint.…”

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The pharmacy residency program guide to Twitter

Webb

Margetak

Schramm

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J Am Coll Clin Pharm

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BackgroundTwitter has emerged as a powerful networking and educational tool within the health care community. The instantaneous and casual nature of Twitter allows for easy access to a near limitless pool of medical professionals and the opportunity to share intra‐ and interprofessional knowledge. Beyond individual development, Twitter has the potential to positively impact pharmacy residency programs in a multitude of ways.ObjectiveThis article serves as a practical guide for pharmacy residency programs to implement and maintain a successful Twitter account.RecommendationsAt the program level, a Twitter account creates an official voice and brand while simultaneously providing detail and perspective beyond what a residency website may offer. Additionally, it allows for dynamic ground‐level engagement with prospective residency candidates, current residents, and preceptors which is mutually beneficial to the program audience. In the age of virtual recruitment, successfully utilizing digital tools to meet candidates where they are is essential for attracting the right candidate for the program. Implementation of a successful social media strategy has potential barriers that include garnering buy‐in from departmental leadership, operationalizing a social media team, and maintaining engagement momentum.ConclusionPharmacy residency programs should consider starting an official Twitter account.

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“…Theoretically, Twitter provides residency programs the ability to disseminate knowledge in novel ways and to draw attention to its residents' accomplishments. Literature on the impact of social media use by residency programs is expanding, though only draws from a few different types of residency programs (St Claire et al, 2019;Xie et al, 2018;Diller and Yarris, 2018;Lamb et al, 2017;Hass et al, 2016). Focus tends to be placed on educational content, though one study from an internal medicine program twitter account analysis found that the small number of tweets highlighting resident accomplishments or social events (N=49) were rated as highly informative by the majority of residents (80%) (Bergl, Narang and Arora, 2015).…”

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Twelve Tips for Tweeting as a Residency Program

O’Glasser¹,

Desai²,

Cooney³

2019

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Physicians have dramatically increased social media use in recent years. Twitter has been heralded as a means to connect a broader learning community, engage with colleagues, initiate mentorship and sponsorship, and to amplify trainees. A residency program-linked Twitter account affords unique opportunities to champion residents while promoting the program and its affiliated faculty and institutions. However, while the scholarship of Twitter usage is expanding, the current literature specific to residency programs is limited. We draw from our experience tweeting as an internal medicine program to share more broadly applicable advice. With these practical tips, creating, maintaining, and sustaining a residency program twitter account can be feasible, fulfilling, and successful.

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A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Twitter by Emergency Medicine Residency Programs

Abstract: Applications and usage among EM residency programs are varied, and are frequently not consistent with current CORD recommendations.

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Twitter and Research: A Systematic Literature Review Through Text Mining

Twitter and Research: A Systematic Literature Review Through Text Mining

The pharmacy residency program guide to Twitter

Twelve Tips for Tweeting as a Residency Program

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