Medical Education
Research must do no harm: new guidance addresses all studies relating to people.
24 Jun, 2022 | 11:46h | UTCResearch must do no harm: new guidance addresses all studies relating to people – Nature
See Guidance: Research Ethics – Nature Portfolio
Supplement: Digital strategy and social media in infectious diseases.
21 Jun, 2022 | 10:22h | UTCHomepage: Digital Strategy and Social Media in Infectious Diseases – Clinical Infectious Diseases
Digital Strategy and Social Media for Infectious Diseases
The Digital Classroom: How to Leverage Social Media for Infectious Diseases Education
Educational Impact of #IDJClub, a Twitter-Based Infectious Diseases Journal Club
Surgeons, Infectious Diseases, and Twitter Hit a Home Run for Antibiotic Stewardship
Go V.I.R.A.L.: Social Media Engagement Strategies in Infectious Diseases
Guidelines for cadaver dissection in education and research of clinical medicine.
31 May, 2022 | 11:28h | UTC
Creating effective infographics and visual abstracts to disseminate research and facilitate medical education on social media.
24 May, 2022 | 10:46h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Creating Effective Infographics and Visual Abstracts to Disseminate Research and Facilitate Medical Education on Social Media
🆓 Freely Available
🔗 https://t.co/GpeoEQAWMP#IDTwitter
via @JenniferSpicer4 and @cg_coleman pic.twitter.com/DjiJbAyPVQ— Clinical Infectious Diseases (@CIDJournal) May 23, 2022
Opinion | Immersion in innovation should be part of every health care professionals’ training.
24 May, 2022 | 07:48h | UTCImmersion in innovation should be part of every health care professionals’ training – STAT
Geriatric medicine learning objectives and entrustable professional activities in undergraduate medical curricula: a scoping review.
18 May, 2022 | 10:37h | UTC
Sci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used.
13 May, 2022 | 10:47h | UTCSci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used – Nature
Limiting resident-physician work hours may improve patient safety outcomes.
12 May, 2022 | 10:30h | UTCNews Release: Limiting resident-physician work hours improved patient safety outcome – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Opinion: Why preprints are good for patients.
12 May, 2022 | 10:25h | UTCWhy preprints are good for patients – Nature Medicine
Commentary on Twitter
.@PeterHorby on how rapid communication saved lives. "In the month between the public announcement of the [RECOVERY dexamethasone] result and the publication of the peer-reviewed manuscript, over 700,000 [new] COVID-19 cases were reported globally."https://t.co/5m3VVxjBBX
— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) May 11, 2022
Teaching medical students to teach: a narrative review and literature-informed recommendations for student-as-teacher curricula.
25 Apr, 2022 | 00:03h | UTCTeaching Medical Students to Teach – Academic Medicine
Opinion | The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper? – “As a format it’s slow, encourages hype, and is difficult to correct. A radical overhaul of publishing could make science better”.
14 Apr, 2022 | 08:37h | UTCThe big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper? – The Guardian
Opinion | Time to rethink the scientific CV.
13 Apr, 2022 | 10:23h | UTCTime to rethink the scientific CV – Nature
Commentary on Twitter
As institutions and funders around the world reassess their approach to researcher evaluations, there’s a growing call to revamp the academic CVs used to support applications for jobs, funding, promotions and awards. Read the @NatureCareers feature. https://t.co/ZGxrJrA1ZG
— Nature Portfolio (@NaturePortfolio) April 12, 2022
Riding the Twitter wave: Enthusiasm for the social media platform changed science communication during the pandemic—but will it last?
28 Mar, 2022 | 09:56h | UTCRelated:
Perspective: How Twitter is Changing Medical Research
Keeping Up With Cardiology: Old-School Learning Versus the Twittersphere – TCTMD
Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops? – Facets
Rise of the Tweetorial – Precious Bodily Fluids
Social Medicine: Twitter in Healthcare – Journal of Clinical Medicine
University of Twitter? Scientists give impromptu lecture critiquing nutrition research – CBC
What’s your doctor reading? How social media is disrupting medical education – National Post
Commentary on Twitter
"[Twitter] has carried posts about a majority of the total COVID-19 literature—about 51% of journal articles on pandemic research had been mentioned in at least one tweet through May 2021" https://t.co/i4QEBE7F0m
— onisillos (@onisillos) March 25, 2022
Perspective | Teaching more about less: preparing clinicians for practice.
22 Mar, 2022 | 08:51h | UTCTeaching More About Less: Preparing Clinicians for Practice – The American Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)
Opinion: Open science, done wrong, will compound inequities.
15 Mar, 2022 | 08:14h | UTCOpen science, done wrong, will compound inequities – Nature
Related:
Open-access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south.
Open-access Science Funders Announce Price Transparency Rules for Publishers (several resources on the subject)
A new mandate highlights costs, benefits of making all scientific articles free to read – Science
A guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing – Nature
Perspective: David Oliver: Has covid killed the medical conference?
25 Feb, 2022 | 11:26h | UTCDavid Oliver: Has covid killed the medical conference? – The BMJ
Perspective | How to banish manels and manferences from scientific meetings.
22 Feb, 2022 | 08:23h | UTCHow to banish manels and manferences from scientific meetings – Nature
Open-access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south.
18 Feb, 2022 | 08:35h | UTCOpen-access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south – Nature
M-A: Association of physician continuous professional development and referrals.
18 Feb, 2022 | 08:27h | UTC
Massive open index of scholarly papers launches – “OpenAlex catalogues hundreds of millions of scientific documents and charts connections between them”.
25 Jan, 2022 | 09:04h | UTCMassive open index of scholarly papers launches – Nature
Opinion: Five tips for becoming an ideal general hospitalist.
19 Jan, 2022 | 08:23h | UTCFive Tips for Becoming an Ideal General Hospitalist – International Journal of General Medicine
Perspective: Doctors are trained to be kind and empathetic – but a ‘hidden curriculum’ makes them forget on the job.
16 Dec, 2021 | 08:41h | UTC
Optimizing the use of Twitter for research dissemination: The “Three Facts and a Story” randomized-controlled trial.
21 Nov, 2021 | 22:48h | UTCRelated:
Perspective: How Twitter is Changing Medical Research
Keeping Up With Cardiology: Old-School Learning Versus the Twittersphere – TCTMD
Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops? – Facets
Rise of the Tweetorial – Precious Bodily Fluids
Social Medicine: Twitter in Healthcare – Journal of Clinical Medicine
University of Twitter? Scientists give impromptu lecture critiquing nutrition research – CBC
What’s your doctor reading? How social media is disrupting medical education – National Post
Commentary from the author on Twitter (thread – click for more)
We wanted to⬆️engagement with @JHepatology research
🤔Hypothesis: people are ⬆️ likely to connect with the people behind the research than the research itself
🧐Plan: Randomize papers to personal story tweets or graphical abstracts
🧐Primary Outcome: paper downloads#livertwitter pic.twitter.com/rxvbGrANRp— Elliot Tapper (@ebtapper) June 1, 2021
Cardiovascular clinical examination: the need for an evidence-based approach.
31 Oct, 2021 | 19:57h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Which role for cardiac clinical examination today?
According to new cardiopulse, cardiac physical diagnosis shold be regarded as a science that can be learnt, rather than an art that can only be aspired to.https://t.co/oG1NJusXrS#cardiotwitter, @ESC_Journals, @escardio. pic.twitter.com/B9iUSv0gnj— EHJ Editor-in-Chief (@ehj_ed) October 30, 2021
Opinion | Understanding of research results, evidence summaries and their applicability—not critical appraisal—are core skills of medical curriculum.
21 Oct, 2021 | 09:57h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Is the critical appraisal of individual studies a core skill for clinicians? @KariTikkinen and @EBCPMcMaster argue that there are more important things for them to learn in order to apply #EBM in real life.
A thought-provoking piece in @BMJ_EBM 👌https://t.co/f6KvsRpHOw pic.twitter.com/FOf5ywT1bf
— Lucas Morin (@lucasmorin_eolc) October 20, 2021