Friday, April 27, 2012

Will Medical Educators Adopt Social Media?

This morning I had the privilege to do a presentation on the use of Social Media in Medical Education to a group of seasoned medical educators.  David Pilasky, Jason Korenkiewicz and Nicholas Arcieri made up the rest of the presentation team.  This was a group well versed in pedagogy and the changing landscape of healthcare in the country.  But they were mostly unfamiliar with possible pedagogic uses of tools like Tweetchats and Google Hangouts.
We did a pre and post session poll to gauge the knowledge of and attitudes towards use of Social Media in Medical Education.

Here is a storify summary of the session.  It is impressive to see the gradual change in the audience as the session went on.

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The MedEd Plenary on Social Media

An introductory session on the use of Social Media in Medical Education - participants included people involved in various aspects of medical student education and were mostly new to Twitter.
  1. Asked the audience about their reaction to Twitter. Tweet's captured the response from the audience! (Not the poster's opinion)
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    First reaction on the use of Twitter. "Ugh" #someded
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    #someded Why people don't use twitter? Get off my lawn, too busy.
  4. The audience slowly began to thaw 
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    Educators beginning to see the use of social media. @Neil_Mehta is on fire! #someded
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    Knowledge is about to be disseminated, loving it! #someded
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    Love it! @dsmwiener: #someded About to learn more about social media from Neil Mehta
  8. Gave a very very brief demo of how to use Twitter with #Someded hashtag.  There were a few tentative first tweets!
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    #someded Hello everyone. This is my first tweet ever!


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    #someded


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    #someded hello


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    #someded hello everyone

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    #someded I finally got through!

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  14. Nicholas Arcieri did a great job encouraging the users.
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    Don't be afraid of Twitter, it can't bite, I promise! #someded
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    everyone is doing a great job for their first time tweeting! #someded
  17. We started off with a demonstration of a case discussion on Twitter
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    We have a 50-year old male with low back pain #someded
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    From CWRU: Does he have bladder or bowel incontinence? #someded
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    History of cancer? #someded
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    @KorenkiewiczJ great question... no cancer, no incontienece #someded
  22. We got some questions about the typical red flags.  Prompted the audience for more questions and got some great ones.
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    Any other questions? before we proceed to exam #someded
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    Does he have fever or chills? #someded
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    #someded does he have insurance?

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  1. Any other symptoms? #someded
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    #someded what is height and weight
  3. There was a great response from the group, they start seeing the potential and start thinking of potential applications.
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    How do medical educators use social media? @Neil_Mehta uses tweet chat w/ students. #SoMedEd

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    <- chat room on steriods #someded

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    #someded Very cool!

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    Hi! This may have promise! #someded


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    #someded multiple uses in med ed


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    #someded we are getting there


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    #someded could use this to chat with incoming students.

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    #someded A great advantage is connecting with people you don't normally get to collaborate with!

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    #someded grouptweet.com for private conversations
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    #someded @Colleenocg Twitter and Twitter fountain could be useful for use in Group Application Exercises within TBL


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    Storify sounds like it has a lot of potential... #someded


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  15. The conversation was picked up by folks outside the meeting
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    RT @UCPritzker: How do medical educators use social media? @Neil_Mehta uses tweet chat w/ students. #SoMedEd
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    RT @UCPritzker: How do medical educators use social media? @Neil_Mehta uses tweet chat w/ students. #SoMedEd
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    RT @UCPritzker: How do medical educators use social media? @Neil_Mehta uses tweet chat w/ students. #SoMedEd
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    RT @UCPritzker: How do medical educators use social media? @Neil_Mehta uses tweet chat w/ students. #SoMedEd
  20. Some concerns, some anxiety, barriers and some great humor!
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    #someded I'm going to start just printing the Internet


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    #someded Very informative article. Glossary makes me realize how little I know.

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    #someded This seems complicated for widespread faculty use


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    I am a novice in learning a new skill #someded

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    #someded we need tutors/mentors


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  1. Many concerns about identity authenticity & management #someded
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    #someded iPad interface is not great


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    #someded that's it! I'm going back to stamps!
  4. Some feedback; Some Tips and resources
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    #someded Well worth the time. 

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    IT session was user friendly and fun--CWRU was outstanding! #someded


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    Great time talking to student services, very good questions. #Someded
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    The article is very informative as I knew nothing about this new thing #someded


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    RT @PeterMMarzuk: #someded thanks to all our friends from case for a great meeting


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    You can follow people in this feed by putting the mouse over their name and the follow button should pop up, then just click follow #someded
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    RT @nicholas_urmc: Here is a great guide on #GettingStartedWithTwitter paulpduxbury.com/HowToTwit...#someded
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    RT @nicholas_urmc: You should take your IT guy to lunch and make him tell you all of the twitter secrets.... #someded
  13. We did a pre and post session ARS poll which showed an impressive change in knowledge and intention to change behavior (use SoMe in teaching).  This was a terrific audience - who says medical educators can't be open minded about change!



What about the pre and post data?  Well we did not do an IRB for this study so would not be able to reveal that results ;-(