Twitter for Journal Clubs and Medical Education – Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) Grand Rounds 10/15/2015 Additional notes: http://paulsufka.com/hcmc

1. Twitter for Journal
Clubs and Medical
Education
Paul Sufka M.D.
@psufka

2. No relevant disclosures
Slides and links
available online:
paulsufka.com/hcmc
(No were harmed in the making of this presentation)

3. What is Twitter?

4. How to Twitter
#RheumJC’s guide:
rheumjc.com/getting-started
#NephJC’s guide:
www.nephjc.com/how-to/
Mom This is How Twitter Works:
www.momthisishowtwitterworks.com/

5. Many Uses of Twitter
Microblogging
Sharing
Connecting

6. Many Uses of Twitter
News & Trends
Conferences
Journal Clubs

7. Personal Learning Network

9. #FOAMed Movement
“exploding collection of constantly evolving,
collaborative and interactive open access
medical education resources being
distributed on the web”

12. Who to Follow?
https://twitter.com/psufka/lists/hcmc/members

14. Twitter Hashtags
Journal clubs: #RheumJC
Medical conferences: #ACR15
Education: #FOAMed
Diseases: #arthritis

15. Finding Hashtags

16. Applying the Power of Twitter
to Medical Journal Clubs

17. Journal Club
• “Group of individuals who meet regularly
to critically evaluate recent articles in the
academic literature”
• Flipped classroom model
• Higher cognitive domain

18. Standard classroom:
Students introduced to new material in
class. Limited engagement.
Flipped classroom:
Exposure to new material outside class.
Knowledge assimilated via
engagement.

19. 1. Knowledge
2. Comprehension
3. Application
4. Analysis
5. Synthesis
6. Creation
Bloom’s Taxonomy

20. Why Twitter is perfect for
Journal Club…

21. Increased number of
participants.
Ability to interact directly
with authors.
Broader range of knowledge
and experiences.

25. • Launched January 2015
• Five founders: @rheumpearls, @psufka,
@DrBhana, @rheumed, @hausmannMD
• Recently finished 5th journal club session
• Typically run two 1-hour long sessions to allow
worldwide participation

26. Involvement:
• 2/5 had primary author as part of discussion
• 3/5 involved specialists outside of
rheumatology
• 3/5 the publisher has agreed to make the
article open access for purpose of the journal
club

27. Average turnout:
• 41 participants
• 15 different countries
• 354 unique tweets
(includes only sessions 2-5)

34. #JHMChat

39. Moderating
Opening
• Greet and ask for introductions/COI
• Reminders (next session, how to
guides, etc)
• Moderator engagement important!

40. Moderating
Discussion
• Encourage discussion by asking
questions
• Don’t have to provide summary of
entire paper
• Highlight key points & figures

41. Questions or
Comments?
@psufka
Slides/links: paulsufka.com/hcmc