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Maintaining a Twitter Feed to Advance an Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Educational Mission
BACKGROUND: Residency programs face many challenges in educating learners. The millennial generation’s learning preferences also force us to reconsider how to reach physicians in training. Social media is emerging as a viable tool for advancing curricula in graduate medical education. OBJECTIVE: The...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5041360/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27731845 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.4434 |
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author | Bergl, Paul A Narang, Akhil Arora, Vineet M |
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description | BACKGROUND: Residency programs face many challenges in educating learners. The millennial generation’s learning preferences also force us to reconsider how to reach physicians in training. Social media is emerging as a viable tool for advancing curricula in graduate medical education. OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to understand how social media enhances a residency program’s educational mission. METHODS: While chief residents in the 2013-2014 academic year, two of the authors (PB, AN) maintained a Twitter feed for their academic internal medicine residency program. Participants included the chief residents and categorical internal medicine house staff. RESULTS: At the year’s end, the authors surveyed residents about uses and attitudes toward this initiative. Residents generally found the chief residents’ tweets informative, and most residents (42/61, 69%) agreed that Twitter enhanced their overall education in residency. CONCLUSIONS: Data from this single-site intervention corroborate that Twitter can strengthen a residency program’s educational mission. The program’s robust following on Twitter outside of the home program also suggests a need for wider adoption of social media in graduate medical education. Improved use of data analytics and dissemination of these practices to other programs would lend additional insight into social media’s role in improving residents’ educational experiences. |
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spelling | pubmed-50413602016-10-05 Maintaining a Twitter Feed to Advance an Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Educational Mission Bergl, Paul A Narang, Akhil Arora, Vineet M JMIR Med Educ Original Paper BACKGROUND: Residency programs face many challenges in educating learners. The millennial generation’s learning preferences also force us to reconsider how to reach physicians in training. Social media is emerging as a viable tool for advancing curricula in graduate medical education. OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to understand how social media enhances a residency program’s educational mission. METHODS: While chief residents in the 2013-2014 academic year, two of the authors (PB, AN) maintained a Twitter feed for their academic internal medicine residency program. Participants included the chief residents and categorical internal medicine house staff. RESULTS: At the year’s end, the authors surveyed residents about uses and attitudes toward this initiative. Residents generally found the chief residents’ tweets informative, and most residents (42/61, 69%) agreed that Twitter enhanced their overall education in residency. CONCLUSIONS: Data from this single-site intervention corroborate that Twitter can strengthen a residency program’s educational mission. The program’s robust following on Twitter outside of the home program also suggests a need for wider adoption of social media in graduate medical education. Improved use of data analytics and dissemination of these practices to other programs would lend additional insight into social media’s role in improving residents’ educational experiences. JMIR Publications Inc. 2015-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5041360/ /pubmed/27731845 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.4434 Text en ©Paul A Bergl, Akhil Narang, Vineet M Arora. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org), 10.07.2015. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Education, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mededu.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Bergl, Paul A Narang, Akhil Arora, Vineet M Maintaining a Twitter Feed to Advance an Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Educational Mission |
title | Maintaining a Twitter Feed to Advance an Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Educational Mission |
title_full | Maintaining a Twitter Feed to Advance an Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Educational Mission |
title_fullStr | Maintaining a Twitter Feed to Advance an Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Educational Mission |
title_full_unstemmed | Maintaining a Twitter Feed to Advance an Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Educational Mission |
title_short | Maintaining a Twitter Feed to Advance an Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Educational Mission |
title_sort | maintaining a twitter feed to advance an internal medicine residency program’s educational mission |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5041360/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27731845 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.4434 |
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