Moment vs Movement: Mission‐Based Tweeting for Physician Advocacy

Marcelin, Jasmine R.; Cawcutt, Kelly; Shapiro, Mark S.; Varghese, Thomas K.; O’Glasser, Avital Y.

doi:10.12788/jhm.3636

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“…Such unprofessional behavior not only endangers educators’ reputations but can also erode public trust in the ID profession more general. We suggest that all users of SoMe become familiar with mission-based tweeting if using Twitter [ 30 ].…”

Section: Rules Of Engagement With Social Mediamentioning

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The Digital Classroom: How to Leverage Social Media for Infectious Diseases Education

Nematollahi

2022

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Social media (SoMe) platforms have been increasingly used by infectious diseases (ID) learners and educators in recent years. This trend has only accelerated with the changes brought to our educational spaces by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Given the increasingly diverse SoMe landscape, educators may find themselves struggling with how to effectively use these tools. In this Viewpoint we describe how to use SoMe platforms (e.g., Twitter, podcasts, and open-access online content portals) in medical education, highlight medical education theories supporting their use, and discuss how educators can engage with these learning tools effectively. We focus on how these platforms harness key principles of adult learning and provide a guide for educators in the effective use of SoMe tools in educating ID learners. Finally, we suggest how to effectively interact with and leverage these increasingly important digital platforms.

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Section: Rules Of Engagement With Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Digital Classroom: How to Leverage Social Media for Infectious Diseases Education

Nematollahi

2022

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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“…Although Twitter was the most popular social media platform for ID programs at the time of this study, shifts in platform popularity may occur; programs should be cognizant of this possibility and adapt to the predominant platform to target their audience, keeping in mind that each platform has unique strengths. When choosing a platform, a program should reflect upon their SoMe mission and match that to the strengths of the individual SoMe platform (ie, improve visualization of program social activities and applicant views of surrounding city may be best achieved through the image-centric Instagram) [ 26 ]. Blueprints for the development of ID divisional SoMe strategy and educational competencies for ID fellows are published and would be helpful to programs new to SoMe [ 23 ].…”

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Adoption and Utilization of Social Media Among Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Divisions and Fellowship Programs in the United States

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Open Forum Infectious Diseases

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Background Social media (SoMe) is ubiquitous, but its adoption and utilization by infectious diseases (ID) divisions are poorly characterized. Methods A systematic search of US ID fellowship/division Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts occurred in November-December 2021. SoMe account and program characteristics, post frequency and content, and other measures of SoMe adoption and utilization were recorded and compared between adult and pediatric programs. Posts were thematically categorized as social, promotional, educational, recruitment, or other. Results Of 222 ID programs identified, 158 (71.2%) were adult and 64 (28.8%) pediatric. 70 (31.5%) Twitter, 14 (6.3%) Facebook, and 14 (6.3%) Instagram accounts were identified from US programs. Twitter accounts were associated with larger programs and higher match rates. More adult than pediatric programs had Twitter accounts (37.3% vs. 17.2%, p=0.004); utilization was similar between adult and pediatric programs. Most Twitter posts were educational (1653/2859, 57.8%); Facebook promotional (68/128, 53.1%); Instagram social (34/79, 43%). Facebook was the earliest adopted SoMe platform, but Twitter and Instagram have more recent growth. Rate of Twitter account creation increased from 1.33 accounts/month in the year prior to March 2020 (COVID pandemic declaration) to 2.58 accounts/month in the year after March 2020 (p=0.18). Conclusion SoMe remains underutilized across ID divisions, but COVID-19 and virtual recruiting may have influenced recent account creation. Twitter was the most frequently used ID program SoMe platform. SoMe may benefit ID programs in recruitment and amplification of their trainees, faculty, and specialty.

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“…Even seemingly mundane elements of critical care training, such as social media policy sessions, can offer opportunities to discuss narrative topics such as the patient’s ownership of their own story and the effective, ethical use of social media platforms for professional and community advocacy ( 32 ). Indeed, the past 2 years have demonstrated the critical importance of uniting medical knowledge with the capacity to engage with story.…”

Section: Reflecting On and Sharing Our Storiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Awdish articulates both the unrelenting weight of the pandemic’s emotional and physical strain on her clinical practice and her own act of “recognizing, absorbing, interpreting, and being moved to action” by the patient’s recount of not seeing her grandchildren owing to hesitancy regarding vaccination ( 32 ).…”

Section: Reflecting On and Sharing Our Storiesmentioning

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A Way Forward in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Making the Case for Narrative Competence in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

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Each surge of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic presented new challenges to pulmonary and critical care practitioners. Although some of the initial challenges were somewhat less acute, clinicians now are left to face the physical, emotional, and mental toll of the past 2 years. The pandemic revealed a need for a more varied skillset, including space for reflection, tolerance of uncertainty, and humanism. These skills can assist clinicians who are left to heal from the difficulty of caring for patients in the absence of families who were excluded from the intensive care unit, public distrust of vaccines, and morgues overtaken by our patients. As pulmonary and critical care medicine practitioners and educators, we believe that cultivating practices, pedagogies, and institutional structures that foster narrative competence, “the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others,” in our ourselves, our trainees, and our colleagues, may provide a productive way forward. In addition to fostering needed skills, this practice can promote necessary healing as well. This perspective introduces the practice of narrative competence, provides evidence of support for its implementation, and suggests opportunities for curricular integration.

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Moment vs Movement: Mission‐Based Tweeting for Physician Advocacy

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

The Digital Classroom: How to Leverage Social Media for Infectious Diseases Education

The Digital Classroom: How to Leverage Social Media for Infectious Diseases Education

Adoption and Utilization of Social Media Among Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Divisions and Fellowship Programs in the United States

A Way Forward in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Making the Case for Narrative Competence in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

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