Live-Tweet to get the most out of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Virtual Annual Meeting

Showcasing Your Cardiothoracic Training Program in the Virtual Era

“…Sharing faculty and trainee achievements alike is a worthwhile practice when trying to gain the interest of candidates for training programs. In addition to sharing accomplishments such as scholarships and awards, social media is also a very useful tool for disseminating scholarly activity, and it can be used to live-tweet (virtual) presentations 33 , 34 from existing faculty and trainees as well as to bring attention to key publications from your department. 32 , 35 This will give prospective trainees a taste for the department’s specific areas of research as well as the overall level of scholarly productivity.…”

A Cardiothoracic Surgeon’s Playbook for Social Media and Digital Scholarship

“…Best practice recommendations and a step-by-step how-to live tweet academic conferences have been previously published. 8,9 Tweeters should be aware of tweeting guidelines of the specific conference in question and respect speaker wishes to prohibit tweeting of all or certain parts of their presentation.…”

Social Media in Surgery

“…32,33 Best practice recommendations for live-tweeting scientific conferences have been previously published as well as a step-by-step howto-do-it on how to get started. 34,35 These guidelines are not limited to conferences and serve as rules of thumb to adopt in one's social media practice.…”