I had the privilege of writing a paper recently with Dr.
Janine Zee-Cheng on Live Tweeting in Medicine: 'Tweeting the Meeting', which came
out a few months ago (and allows free open access to all articles through the end of June, 2015). In it, we
highlighted the importance of lifelong learning through the use of Twitter at
conferences. I also encourage a quick read of this other great piece giving
suggestions on how to live tweet in conferences.
Dr. Zee-Cheng, a pediatric critical care physician from my
institution, is giving a presentation on a social media-related project she did
as part of her fellowship, at a conference currently
going on this week in Chicago. The hashtag
is #smaccUS (to reflect social media and critical care). I highly encourage those who are reading this
blog now to check out the tweets from this conference. The discussions, on a variety of topics, are
truly epic, and range from general content in the management of critically ill
patients, to the emotional side of medicine, to introspective reflection about
one’s practice, to frank humor.
While I am not at the conference (we are orienting new
incoming interns to begin their clinical duties), I have learned so much from
reading tweets from participants. I
encourage all interested in this topic, and literally, medicine in general, to check out the #smaccUS hashtag—you will
not regret it!
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