How can social media make you a better medical educator?
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The document discusses how social media and networks can help medical educators develop. It introduces Natalie Lafferty and Anne Marie Cunningham who will discuss their workshop on this topic. They will provide an introduction and allow questions from attendees. Social media strategies for medical education will be discussed, including using hashtags for specific classes or specialties. Cooperation and collaboration through social networks is emphasized.
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How can social media make you a better medical educator?
- 1. How can social media and networks help you to develop as a medical educator? Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty
- 2. Our workshop Informal-Ask questions- Get answers-Learn! Intros from Natalie and AM Meet a student! Social media surgery http://www.flickr.com/photos/82242836@N06/8011619046/
- 18. Medical Education and Social Media Dr Anne Marie Cunningham Academic Lead for eLearning School of Medicine, Cardiff University
- 19. TWO BIG TRENDS… NETWORKS AND OPEN
- 21. The rise of open? OPEN practice data gov source education research
- 22. My complex professional identity Practitioner Educator Researcher
- 27. Curation
- 28. Digital professionalism…. …students need role models
- 38. Welcome Sophie Bishton! Final year student UEA Founder of #twitfrg (Twitter Finals Revision Group) Social networker
- 39. HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
Editor's Notes
- My very first tweet was made in May 2008. I was invited to join Twitter by a friend who works in IT. It just happens that at the time I was still at work thinking about a teaching session so my first tweet has quite a strong medical education flavour. Like many people I wasn't sure what to actually make of Twitter after this and I left it for several months until I went to two medical education conferences and decided that social media could serve a purpose for me.
- But the barriers to sharing this kind of local practical information are not only technical, they are more likely to be social. After all email has been around for years. If we were truly happy sharing about our practice then we would have been doing this already. Some of the reasons that we don’t share our practice are concerns about who we are talking to- who is in control? Who has power? What will be the implications of sharing for how we see ourselves and how others see us?
- We’re balancing the risks of sharing and learning through openness against the safety and privacy (to maintain more fixed identities) of a closed environment.
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/6426905021/And lastly, you can inspire others. Do you know this amazingly busy, and productive man? It's AtulGawande- surgeon, author and researcher. The eloquent AtulGawande can teach you about how to use Twitter.
- Last year, I spotted this tweet one Sunday afternoon. Two minutes later I had made my reply to him.
- . I invited him to participate in a discussion of his paper in the Twitter Journal Club, a twice monthly discussion of a paper on Twitter, started by a medical student, Fi Douglas, and Natalie Silvey, a junior doctor. This was too good an opportunity to miss. What do you think happened?
- Well- the discussion started and there was no sign of AtulGawande. People were making some of the usual complaints about the original surgical checklist paper. It didn't apply to the developed world etc etc. But then he joined in. He started commenting on the discussion. And if you have any doubt about how 140 characters can be used to communicate anything useful watch and learn from this master. So what was the reaction? People were thrilled and informed. AtulGawande was on vacation with his family but he was able to share his expertise with students and others who asked him questions about his work. He was inspiring. Do you want to inspire others?