Twitter-based learning for continuing medical education?

Abstract

Social media is a powerful tool that has the potential to transform continuing medical education (CME). Whilst online learning in medical education is well established-from medical school to practising physicians-its advantages over conventional teaching methods remain unclear. [1][2][3] Social media, in particular Twitter, has emerged as a new educational medium, and more recently there has been discussion about translating the educational content of Twitter into formal CME. 4,5 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in widespread, global social distancing. Accordingly, it has accelerated the argument of further incorporating educational content delivered through social media platforms such as Twitter into mainstream remote-learning tools. 6,7

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“…Twitter not only creates unique opportunities for learning about new research findings, it can also provide rich clinical educational content [34]. "Tweetorials" or threaded tweets are used frequently to present lessons on clinical topics and engage learners at all levels [35].…”

Twitter in der Kardiologie

“…Insbesondere Twitter entwickelt sich seit einigen Jahren zu einer schnellen, prägnanten und einfachen Plattform, über die fachliche und wissenschaftliche Inhalte geteilt werden [4]. Aktuell wird sogar diskutiert, ob Fortbildungsinhalte auf Twitter für ärztliche Fortbildungspunkte (Continuing Medical Education, CME) anerkannt werden sollten [5,6]. Während der letzten 5 Jahre ist die Anzahl von Twitter Journal Clubs um 118,93 % angestiegen [7].…”