Twitter Journal Club in Medical Radiation Science

What Medical Imaging Professionals Talk About When They Talk About Compassion

“…Secondly, coding tweets was challenging; discussion tends to soon become fragmented and decontextualised, resulting in the meaning of some tweets being difficult to interpret. These and other issues have been highlighted elsewhere in the radiography literature 49,50 and research also suggests that threadbased discussions risk creating misunderstandings. 51 The themes constructed from the findings of this research show that compassion is a broader phenomenon than might be assumed from dictionary definitions, which are confined to feelings around suffering coupled with a desire to relieve it.…”

Navigating the maze: Qualitative research methodologies and their philosophical foundations

“…Disadvantages include the readiness with which participants can adopt an online persona which may differ to their real-world one and the challenges of keeping up with a sometimes rapidly moving online conversation. 25,26 Observation is a method drawn from the ethnographic tradition in qualitative research, the idea being that as participant observer, the researcher watches behaviour in as naturalistic setting as possible. The intention is to remove any artificiality or bias created by participants answering questions in ways they believe to be desirable or acceptable, although it has been shown that behaviours can change in response to being observed 27 .…”

Social media: medical education's double-edged sword

“…The framework portrays effective learning as engaging the following processes with increasing order of complexity (remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating) and provides a structure against which educational interventions can be evaluated. 4 Within the context of SoMe, there are numerous applications of these learning theories. Different SoMe platforms can be used to support and deliver MedEd, and describes how the theories of communities of practice and connectivism apply (Fig 1).…”

“…Bloom's taxonomy suggests effective learning should involve all six of its domains (remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating), however, the aforementioned examples only engage remembering and understanding. 4 As a result, the effectiveness of such learning may be limited.…”