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Katzman BD, Farshait N, Patlas MN. The Role of Twitter in Radiology Medical Education and Research: A Review of Current Practices and Drawbacks. Can Assoc Radiol J 2024; 75:245-252. [PMID: 37370199 DOI: 10.1177/08465371231180643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
Abstract
The trends in society have provided favourable conditions for the rapid growth of radiology on social media, specifically there has been an expanding presence on Twitter. Currently, simple searches on Twitter yield a plethora of radiology education resources, that may be suited for medical students, residents or practicing radiologists. Educators have many tools at their disposal to deliver effective teaching. Over time, strategies such as including images and scrollable stacks often are more successful at gaining popularity or clicks online. Journals and authors can use Twitter to promote their new scientific work and potentially reach audiences they couldn't have prior. Attendees at conferences can get involved in the conversation by tweeting about the meeting and engaging with other attendees with mutual interests. Interested medical students, residents and even practicing radiologists can use Twitter as a means of networking and connecting with other scholars all around the globe. Within its glory, Twitter does carry some drawbacks including privacy concerns, equality, and risk of misinformation. Above all, the future of Twitter is bright and promising for all who are currently on it and plan to use it for their education, research, or professional advancement.
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- Benjamin D Katzman
- McMaster University Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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Singla RK, De R, Efferth T, Mezzetti B, Sahab Uddin M, Ntie-Kang F, Wang D, Schultz F, Kharat KR, Devkota HP, Battino M, Sur D, Lordan R, Patnaik SS, Tsagkaris C, Sai CS, Tripathi SK, Găman MA, Ahmed MEO, González-Burgos E, Babiaka SB, Paswan SK, Odimegwu JI, Akram F, Simal-Gandara J, Urquiza MS, Tikhonov A, Mondal H, Singla S, Lonardo SD, Mulholland EJ, Cenanovic M, Maigoro AY, Giampieri F, Lee S, Tzvetkov NT, Louka AM, Verma P, Chopra H, Olea SP, Khan J, Alvarez Suarez JM, Zheng X, Tomczyk M, Sabnani MK, Medina CDV, Khalid GM, Boyina HK, Georgiev MI, Supuran CT, Sobarzo-Sánchez E, Fan TP, Pittala V, Sureda A, Braidy N, Russo GL, Vacca RA, Banach M, Lizard G, Zarrouk A, Hammami S, Orhan IE, Aggarwal BB, Perry G, Miller MJ, Heinrich M, Bishayee A, Kijjoa A, Arkells N, Bredt D, Wink M, Fiebich BL, Kiran G, Yeung AWK, Gupta GK, Santini A, Lucarini M, Durazzo A, El-Demerdash A, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Cifuentes A, Souto EB, Zubair MAM, Badhe P, Echeverría J, Horbańczuk JO, Horbanczuk OK, Sheridan H, Sheshe SM, Witkowska AM, Abu-Reidah IM, Riaz M, Ullah H, Oladipupo AR, Lopez V, Sethiya NK, Shrestha BG, Ravanan P, Gupta SC, Alzahrani QE, Dama Sreedhar P, Xiao J, Moosavi MA, Subramani PA, Singh AK, Chettupalli AK, Patra JK, Singh G, Karpiński TM, Al-Rimawi F, Abiri R, Ahmed AF, Barreca D, Vats S, Amrani S, Fimognari C, Mocan A, Hritcu L, Semwal P, Shiblur Rahaman M, Emerald M, Akinrinde AS, Singh A, Joshi A, Joshi T, Khan SY, Balla GOA, Lu A, Pai SR, Ghzaiel I, Acar N, Es-Safi NE, Zengin G, Kureshi AA, Sharma AK, Baral B, Rani N, Jeandet P, Gulati M, Kapoor B, Mohanta YK, Emam-Djomeh Z, Onuku R, Depew JR, Atrooz OM, Goh BH, Andrade JC, Konwar B, Shine VJ, Ferreira JMLD, Ahmad J, Chaturvedi VK, Skalicka-Woźniak K, Sharma R, Gautam RK, Granica S, Parisi S, Kumar R, Atanasov AG, Shen B. The International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) and the power of Twitter networking exemplified through #INPST hashtag analysis. PHYTOMEDICINE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOTHERAPY AND PHYTOPHARMACOLOGY 2023; 108:154520. [PMID: 36334386 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2022.154520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND The development of digital technologies and the evolution of open innovation approaches have enabled the creation of diverse virtual organizations and enterprises coordinating their activities primarily online. The open innovation platform titled "International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce" (INPST) was established in 2018, to bring together in collaborative environment individuals and organizations interested in natural product scientific research, and to empower their interactions by using digital communication tools. METHODS In this work, we present a general overview of INPST activities and showcase the specific use of Twitter as a powerful networking tool that was used to host a one-week "2021 INPST Twitter Networking Event" (spanning from 31st May 2021 to 6th June 2021) based on the application of the Twitter hashtag #INPST. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION The use of this hashtag during the networking event period was analyzed with Symplur Signals (https://www.symplur.com/), revealing a total of 6,036 tweets, shared by 686 users, which generated a total of 65,004,773 impressions (views of the respective tweets). This networking event's achieved high visibility and participation rate showcases a convincing example of how this social media platform can be used as a highly effective tool to host virtual Twitter-based international biomedical research events.
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- Rajeev K Singla
- Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-Related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Xinchuan Road 2222, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab-144411, India
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- ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, CIT Rd, Subhas Sarobar Park, Phool Bagan, Beleghata, Kolkata, West Bengal 700010, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (D3A) Università Politecnica Delle Marche Ancona, IT, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, Southeast University, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Pharmakon Neuroscience Research Network, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea P.O. Box 63, Cameroon
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- Centre for Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, HSC 4N71, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty III - Process Sciences, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, Berlin 13355, Germany; Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Brodaer Str. 2, Neubrandenburg 17033, Germany
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1Oe-honmachi, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan; Program for Leading Graduate Schools, HIGO Program, Kumamoto University, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona 60131, Italy; International Research Center for Food Nutrition and Safety, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
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- Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus, Gomati Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226010, India
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- Cancer Drug Resistance Laboratory, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha-769008, India
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- ″Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Eroii Sanitari Boulevard, Bucharest, Romania; Center of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Fundeni Clinical Institute, 258 Fundeni Road, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan
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- Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea P.O. Box 63, Cameroon
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- Bahawalpur College of Pharmacy (BCP), Bahawalpur Medical and Dental College (BMDC), Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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- Universidade de Vigo, Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Science, Ourense E-32004, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory in Immunotherapy, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
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- iGlobal Research and Publishing Foundation, New Delhi, India
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- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems-Italian National Research Council (IRET-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino Fi 50019, Italy
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- Gastrointestinal Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Research Group on Food, Nutritional Biochemistry and Health, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Santander, Spain
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemical Pharmacology and Drug Design, Institute of Molecular Biology "Roumen Tsanev", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
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- Department of Pharmacology, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow, India
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- Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Punjab, India
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Al Majmaah 11952, Saudi Arabia
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- Departamento de Ingeniería en Alimentos, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy with the Division of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Białystok, ul. Mickiewicza 2a, Białystok 15-230, Poland
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- The University of Texas at Arlington, United States; Alloy Therapeutics, United States
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- Pharmaceutical Engineering Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University, Belfast BT9, United Kingdom
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- School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology, Anurag University, Venkatapur, Medchal, Hyderabad, Telangana 500088, India
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- Laboratory of Metabolomics, Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 139 Ruski Blvd., Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria
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- Instituto de Investigación y Postgrado, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago 8330507, Chile; Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela 15782, Spain
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Research Group in Community Nutrition and Oxidative Stress, University of the Balearic Islands-IUNICS, Health Research Institute of Balearic Islands (IdISBa), and CIBEROBN (Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition), Palma, Balearic Islands E-07122, Spain
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- National Research Council, Institute of Food Sciences, Avellino 83100, Italy
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- Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, National Council of Research, Bari 70126, Italy
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- Department of Preventive Cardiology and Lipidology, Medical University of Lodz (MUL), Lodz, Poland; Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland
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- Université de Bourgogne / Inserm, Laboratoire Bio-PeroxIL, Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, Dijon 21000 France
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- University of Monastir (Tunisia), Faculty of Medicine, LR-NAFS 'Nutrition - Functional Food & Vascular Health', Tunisia
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- University of Monastir (Tunisia), Faculty of Medicine, LR-NAFS 'Nutrition - Functional Food & Vascular Health', Tunisia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Ankara 06330, Türkiye
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- Department of Neuroscience, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas, United States
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- College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Bradenton, FL 34211, United States
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- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar e CIIMAR, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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- International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INSPT), United States
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- Heidelberg University, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB), Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Neurochemistry and Neuroimmunology Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sri Sai College of Pharmacy, Badhani, Pathankot, Punjab, India
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- University of Napoli Federico II, Department of Pharmacy. Via D Montesano 49, Napoli 80131, Italy
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- CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546 00178 Rome, Italy
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- CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546 00178 Rome, Italy
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- Metabolic Biology & Biological Chemistry Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom; Organic Chemistry Division, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, Porto 4050-313, Portugal
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- Swalife Foundation, India; Swalife Biotech Ltd, Ireland; Sinhgad College of Pharmacy, Vadgaon (BK) Pune Maharashtra India
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- Departamento de Ciencias del Ambiente, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
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- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzębiec 05-552, Poland
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- Department of Technique and Food Product Development, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS-SGGW) 159c Nowoursynowska, Warsaw 02-776, Poland
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- The NatPro Centre. Trinity College Dublin. Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook A2H 5G4, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacy, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal 18050, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80131, Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Department of Chemistry, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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- Department of Pharmacy, Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego (Zaragoza), Spain
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India; Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati, Assam, India
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- Department of Pharmacy/Nursing Medicine Health and Environment, University of the Region of Joinville (UNIVILLE) Brazil, Sana Catarina, Joinville, Brazil
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- Molecular Medicine Department, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetics Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran P.O. Box: 14965/161, Iran
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- Independent Researcher, Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS), Chennai, India - 600048. formerly, Pallavaram, Chennai 600117, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj 211002 India
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- Research Institute of Integrative Life Sciences, Dongguk University-Seoul, Goyangsi 10326, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Functional Metabolomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Chair and Department of Medical Microbiology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Wieniawskiego 3, Poznań 61-712, Poland
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- Department of Forestry Science and Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia; Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan 304022, India
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- Laboratoire de Biologie et de Physiologie des Organismes, Faculté des Sciences Biologiques, USTHB, Bab Ezzouar, Alger, Algeria
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Bd. Carol I, No. 11, Iasi 700506, Romania
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248002, India
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- Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan
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- PHYTOCEUTICALS International™ & NOVOTEK Global Solutions™, Canada
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- Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Sardar Bhagwan Singh University, Balawala, Dehradun, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bhimtal, Kumaun University (Nainital), India
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- Research Lab III, Hematology & Vascular Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Hilat Kuku, Khartoum North P.O. Box No. 204, Sudan
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- School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, HongKong, China
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- Department of Botany, Rayat Shikshan Sanstha's, Dada Patil Mahavidyalaya, Karjat, Maharashtra, India
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- Université de Bourgogne, Inserm, Laboratoire Bio - PeroxIL, Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, Dijon 21000 France; University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Mohammed V University in Rabat, LPCMIO, Materials Science Center (MSC), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rabat, Morocco
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- Department of Biology, Science Faculty, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chaudhary Bansilal University, Bhiwani, Haryana, India
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- University of Reims, Research Unit Induced Resistance and Plant Bioprotection, USC INRAe 1488, Reims, France
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar-Delhi G.T. Road (NH 1) Phagwara, Punjab 144411 India
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar-Delhi G.T. Road (NH 1) Phagwara, Punjab 144411 India
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- Department of Applied Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM), Techno City, Kling Road, Baridua, Ri-Bhoi, Meghalaya 793101, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nigeria
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Mutah University, Jordan
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Biofunctional Molecule Exploratory (BMEX) Research Group, School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya, Malaysia
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- TOXRUN - Toxicology Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences, CESPU, Gandra, Portugal
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- Cancer Research Program, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695014, India
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- Department of Human Nutrition, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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- Department of Rasa Shastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005, India
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- Deparment of Pharmacology, Indore Institute of Pharmacy, IIST Campus, Rau-Indore-453331, India
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- Microbiota Lab, Department of Pharmacognosy and Molecular Basis of Phytotherapy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
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- Lourdes Matha Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Kerala State, India
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- School of Medical and Allied Sciences, K.R. Mangalam University, Sohna Road, Gurugram, Haryana 122103, India
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, Vienna 1090, Austria; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, Vienna 1090, Austria; Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Magdalenka 05-552, Poland.
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- Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-Related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Xinchuan Road 2222, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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Allen G, Garris J, Lawson L, Reeder T, Crotty J, Hannan J, Brewer K. An Innovative Use of Twitter to Disseminate and Promote Medical Student Scholarship During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Usability Study. JMIR MEDICAL EDUCATION 2022; 8:e33767. [PMID: 35759753 PMCID: PMC9285668 DOI: 10.2196/33767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Revised: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the cancellation of in-person learning activities forced every aspect of medical education and student engagement to pivot to a web-based format, including activities supporting the performance and dissemination of scholarly work. At that time, social media had been used to augment in-person conference learning, but it had not been used as the sole platform for scholarly abstract presentations. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the feasibility of using Twitter to provide a completely web-based forum for real-time dissemination of and engagement with student scholarly work as an alternative to a traditional in-person poster presentation session. METHODS The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University launched an online Medical Student Scholarship Forum, using Twitter as a platform for students to present scholarly work and prepare for future web-based presentations. A single student forum participant created posts using a standardized template that incorporated student research descriptions, uniform promotional hashtags, and individual poster presentations. Tweets were released over 5 days and analytic data were collected from the Twitter platform. Outcome measures included impressions, engagements, retweets, likes, media engagements, and average daily engagement rate. RESULTS During the conference, the student leader published 63 tweets promoting the work of 58 students (55 medical and 3 dental students) over 5 days. During the forum and the following week, tweets from the @BrodyDistinctly Twitter account received 63,142 impressions and 7487 engagements, including 187 retweets, 1427 likes, and 2082 media engagements. During the 5 days of the forum, the average daily engagement rate was 12.72%. CONCLUSIONS Using Twitter as a means of scholarly dissemination resulted in a larger viewing community compared to a traditional in-person event. Early evidence suggests that social media platforms may be an alternative to traditional scholarly presentations. Presenting via Twitter allowed students to receive instantaneous feedback and effectively network with wider academic communities. Additional research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of knowledge uptake, feedback, and networking.
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- Gary Allen
- Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Office of Medical Education, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Office of Medical Education, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Department of Physiology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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Nawaz FA, Barr AA, Desai MY, Tsagkaris C, Singh R, Klager E, Eibensteiner F, Parvanov ED, Hribersek M, Kletecka-Pulker M, Willschke H, Atanasov AG. Promoting Research, Awareness, and Discussion on AI in Medicine Using #MedTwitterAI: A Longitudinal Twitter Hashtag Analysis. Front Public Health 2022; 10:856571. [PMID: 35844878 PMCID: PMC9283788 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.856571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to reshape medical practice and the delivery of healthcare. Online discussions surrounding AI's utility in these domains are increasingly emerging, likely due to considerable interest from healthcare practitioners, medical technology developers, and other relevant stakeholders. However, many practitioners and medical students report limited understanding and familiarity with AI.ObjectiveTo promote research, events, and resources at the intersection of AI and medicine for the online medical community, we created a Twitter-based campaign using the hashtag #MedTwitterAI.MethodsIn the present study, we analyze the use of #MedTwitterAI by tracking tweets containing this hashtag posted from 26th March, 2019 to 26th March, 2021, using the Symplur Signals hashtag analytics tool. The full text of all #MedTwitterAI tweets was also extracted and subjected to a natural language processing analysis.ResultsOver this time period, we identified 7,441 tweets containing #MedTwitterAI, posted by 1,519 unique Twitter users which generated 59,455,569 impressions. The most common identifiable locations for users including this hashtag in tweets were the United States (378/1,519), the United Kingdom (80/1,519), Canada (65/1,519), India (46/1,519), Spain (29/1,519), France (24/1,519), Italy (16/1,519), Australia (16/1,519), Germany (16/1,519), and Brazil (15/1,519). Tweets were frequently enhanced with links (80.2%), mentions of other accounts (93.9%), and photos (56.6%). The five most abundant single words were AI (artificial intelligence), patients, medicine, data, and learning. Sentiment analysis revealed an overall majority of positive single word sentiments (e.g., intelligence, improve) with 230 positive and 172 negative sentiments with a total of 658 and 342 mentions of all positive and negative sentiments, respectively. Most frequently mentioned negative sentiments were cancer, risk, and bias. Most common bigrams identified by Markov chain depiction were related to analytical methods (e.g., label-free detection) and medical conditions/biological processes (e.g., rare circulating tumor cells).ConclusionThese results demonstrate the generated considerable interest of using #MedTwitterAI for promoting relevant content and engaging a broad and geographically diverse audience. The use of hashtags in Twitter-based campaigns can be an effective tool to raise awareness of interdisciplinary fields and enable knowledge-sharing on a global scale.
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- Faisal A Nawaz
- College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Translational Stem Cell Biology, Research Institute of the Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Nguyen VH, Lyden ER, Yoachim SD. Using Instagram as a tool to enhance anatomy learning at two US dental schools. J Dent Educ 2021; 85:1525-1535. [PMID: 33913160 DOI: 10.1002/jdd.12631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2021] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Although growing evidence supports the inclusion of social media in education, no studies to date have investigated the potential role of Instagram in anatomy education for dental students. Anatomists at University of Texas School of Dentistry (UTSD) and University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Dentistry created unique Instagram pages supplemental to traditional pedagogy, aiming to provide easily-accessible, interactive content for our tech-savvy students. The aim of this study was to evaluate students' perspectives of the use of social media in education and their respective professor's Instagram page. In the fall of 2020, 170 students (86 from UTSD and 84 from UNMC) voluntarily participated in a survey via Qualtrics. The majority of respondents (85.1%) had seven or more years of experience with social media, and 96.9% of students reported using social media as a source of information with 92.5% using for educational purposes. All students agreed that their respective professor's page has been helpful for anatomy study and review, added to their understanding of anatomy, is convenient, engaging, and professional. While consistent themes emerged between cohorts, UNMC students had a higher level of agreement regarding their page's added relevance to learning in the class/clinic (p = 0.0016), while UTSD students reported feeling more comfortable asking their professor questions through Instagram (p = 0.015). Among all variables, female students and Generation Z students responded more favorably than male or Generation Y counterparts. Here, the authors describe benefits and considerations for others interested in using Instagram as an educational tool.
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- Vuvi H Nguyen
- Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas School of Dentistry, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Oral Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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Kletecka-Pulker M, Mondal H, Wang D, Parra RG, Maigoro AY, Lee S, Garg T, Mulholland EJ, Devkota HP, Konwar B, Patnaik SS, Lordan R, Nawaz FA, Tsagkaris C, Rayan RA, Louka AM, De R, Badhe P, Schaden E, Willschke H, Maleczek M, Boyina HK, Khalid GM, Uddin MS, Sanusi, Khan J, Odimegwu JI, Yeung AWK, Akram F, Sai CS, Bucher S, Paswan SK, Singla RK, Shen B, Di Lonardo S, Tosevska A, Simal-Gandara J, Zec M, González-Burgos E, Habijan M, Battino M, Giampieri F, Tikhonov A, Cianciosi D, Forbes-Hernandez TY, Quiles JL, Mezzetti B, Babiaka SB, Ahmed ME, Piccard P, Urquiza MS, Depew JR, Schultz F, Sur D, Pai SR, Găman MA, Cenanovic M, Tzvetkov NT, Tripathi SK, Kharat KR, Garcia-Sosa AT, Sieber S, Atanasov AG. Impacts of biomedical hashtag-based Twitter campaign: #DHPSP utilization for promotion of open innovation in digital health, patient safety, and personalized medicine. CURRENT RESEARCH IN BIOTECHNOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crbiot.2021.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Elkbuli A, Santarone K, Meneses E, McKenney M. Twitter Hashtag and Online Engagement During Surgical Society Meetings Over a 5-Year Period. Am Surg 2020; 87:514-519. [PMID: 33074010 DOI: 10.1177/0003134820942290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Utilizing social media platforms can augment medical conferences by sharing new knowledge and information through hashtags. We aim to investigate the use of Twitter, enhanced conference experience, and education at the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Annual Scientific Assembly 2016-2020. METHODS EAST hashtags were analyzed for the Annual Scientific Assembly 2016-2020: #EAST2016, #EAST2017, #EAST2018, #EAST2019, and #EAST2020. Using #EAST2016 as a baseline, active interaction through engagement, measured by tweets and retweets, passive interaction through impressions, measured by views, as well as users, and influencers were analyzed. RESULTS 2016-2018 saw a significant increase in engagement (7400 to 9200 to 11 000, respectively, P < .05). 2018-2020 then showed a significant decrease in engagement (11 000 to 9000 to 6700, respectively, P < .05). Impressions, increased significantly from 2016 to 2020 (6.6 million to 13.3 million to 12.6 million to 19.9 million to 20.3 million, respectively, P < .05). Users significantly increased to 2700 in 2018 compared with 1000 in 2016 (P < .05), and significantly decreased to 814 in 2020 compared with 2700 in 2018 (P < .05). The top online influencer was the EAST organization Twitter account. CONCLUSION #EAST2016-2018 showed a significant increase in engagement between users, measured by tweets/retweets. However, #EAST2019-2020 suffered declines in users' engagement, maybe a result of social media fatigue. Although, #EAST2016-2020 showed a significant increase in impressions. Both passive and to a more extent active forms of online social media engagement can potentially disseminate new knowledge and medical information. Scientific societies should focus on more effective ways to maintain and enhance users' online experience and engagement toward better utilization of social media platforms.
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- Adel Elkbuli
- 14506 Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- 14506 Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- 14506 Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- 14506 Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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Feliciano JT, Salmi L, Blotner C, Hayden A, Nduom EK, Kwan BM, Katz MS, Claus EB. Brain Tumor Discussions on Twitter (#BTSM): Social Network Analysis. J Med Internet Res 2020; 22:e22005. [PMID: 33030435 PMCID: PMC7582142 DOI: 10.2196/22005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 08/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Brain Tumor Social Media (#BTSM) Twitter hashtag was founded in February 2012 as a disease-specific hashtag for patients with brain tumor. OBJECTIVE To understand #BTSM's role as a patient support system, we describe user descriptors, growth, interaction, and content sharing. METHODS We analyzed all tweets containing #BTSM from 2012 to 2018 using the Symplur Signals platform to obtain data and to describe Symplur-defined user categories, tweet content, and trends in use over time. We created a network plot with all publicly available retweets involving #BTSM in 2018 to visualize key stakeholders and their connections to other users. RESULTS From 2012 to 2018, 59,764 unique users participated in #BTSM, amassing 298,904 tweets. The yearly volume of #BTSM tweets increased by 264.57% from 16,394 in 2012 to 43,373 in 2018 with #BTSM constantly trending in the top 15 list of disease hashtags, as well the top 15 list of tweet chats. Patient advocates generated the most #BTSM tweets (33.13%), while advocacy groups, caregivers, doctors, and researchers generated 7.01%, 4.63%, 3.86%, and 3.37%, respectively. Physician use, although still low, has increased over time. The 2018 network plot of retweets including #BTSM identifies a number of key stakeholders from the patient advocate, patient organization, and medical researcher domains and reveals the extent of their reach to other users. CONCLUSIONS From its start in 2012, #BTSM has grown exponentially over time. We believe its growth suggests its potential as a global source of brain tumor information on Twitter for patients, advocates, patient organizations as well as health care professionals and researchers.
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- Josemari T Feliciano
- Department of Biostatistics, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States
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- OpenNotes, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
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- Social Work Hospice Care Team, Evergreen Health Medical Center, Kirkland, WA, United States
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- Department of Philosophy, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, MA, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States.,Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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Elkbuli A, Santarone K, Boneva D, Hai S, McKenney M. Analysis of the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress Twitter Hashtags and Its Impact on Online Engagement and Attendance Rates : The Era of Health Care Social Media. Am Surg 2020; 87:235-241. [PMID: 32927993 DOI: 10.1177/0003134820950289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Twitter at conferences facilitates remote interaction and spread of ideas. Through the use of hashtags, conference information can be gathered, referenced, disseminated, and discussed in 1 electronic location by attendees and nonattendees from remote locations. The aim of this study is to analyze the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress (ACSCC) Twitter hashtag activities and evaluate its impact on meeting participation and engagement for the last 5 annual meetings. METHODS Twitter hashtags #ACSCC15, #ACSCC16, #ACSCC17, #ACSCC18, and #ACSCC19 were studied to determine tweets, retweets, users, and impressions. Data regarding top influencers and the most tweeted links were analyzed. Symplur Signals, a software that specializes in hashtags, was utilized for the analyses. RESULTS Between 2015 and 2017, there was a consistent increase in tweets from 12 800 to 18 300 to 24 700, respectively. However, in 2018 and 2019, tweets dropped significantly to 19 700 and 19 300, respectively (P < .05). Additionally, impressions dropped significantly by 24 million impressions from 2017 to 2019 (115.1M to 91.1M, P < .05) despite the growth of users from 2700 in 2015 to 4100 in 2016 and ~6500 in 2017-2019. This change occurred despite no change in meeting attendance rates, regardless of specialty (P > .05). The most influential organizations in hashtag use were the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Association of Women Surgeons (AWS). CONCLUSION Despite the significant reduction in views and online engagement activities in the past 2 years, the use of Twitter at the ACS CC has greatly increased the potential dissemination of information but not meeting attendance rates.
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- Adel Elkbuli
- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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Santarone K, Meneses E, Shepherd A, Boneva D, Mckenney M, Elkbuli A. Surgeons and social media: The use of twitter hashtags at the Academic Surgical Congress 2015-2019: A cross sectional study. Ann Med Surg (Lond) 2020; 58:151-155. [PMID: 32922770 PMCID: PMC7474962 DOI: 10.1016/j.amsu.2020.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Revised: 08/30/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background The use of Twitter hashtags at medical conferences has revolutionized the way healthcare professionals interact and advance their education. We aim to investigate the scope of the Academic Surgical Congress's online reach and engagement through the use of Twitter hashtags #ASC from 2015 to 2019, by analyzing the number of impressions and tweets and retweets. Methods A cross sectional study of Twitter data through Symplur with the following conference hashtags for the Academic Surgical Congress annual meetings for years 2015–2019: #ASC2015, #ASC2016, #ASC2017, #ASC2018, and #ASC2019. Data on tweets, retweets, users, and impressions was reviewed along with information on the top 10 influencers and the most frequently tweeted links. Symplur Signals software was utilized to extract and assimilate data. Statistical Significance was defined as p < 0.05. Results Twitter engagement metrics significantly increased from 11,400 to 32,100 from 2015 to 2017 (p < 0.05). However, from 2017 to 2019, there was a significant decline in engagement metrics from 32,100 to 26,100 (p < 0.05). Impressions increased significantly from 13,100 in 2015 to 71,800 impressions in 2019 (p < 0.05). Users grew significantly from 1500 in 2015 to peak at 4600 in 2017 before dropping back to 3300 in 2019 (p < 0.05). The most influential organizations during these years were the organizers of the conference: Association for Academic Surgery and the Society of University Surgeons. Conference attendance progressively increased from approximately 1700 in 2016 to about 2100 in 2019 (p < 0.05). Conclusions Twitter engagement metrics at the Academic Surgical Congress 2015–2019 has fluctuated, while impressions significantly increased through the years indicating the consistent dissemination of conference content. Cross sectional review of the Academic Surgical Congress's online reach and engagement through the use of Twitter hashtags #ASC 2015–2019. Twitter engagement metrics at the Academic Surgical Congress 2015–2019 has fluctuated, while impressions significantly increased through the years. Using Twitter to maximize the dissemination of scientific surgical research and evidence-based practices is highly beneficial to medical professionals.
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- Kristen Santarone
- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA
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Santarone K, Boneva D, McKenney M, Elkbuli A. Hashtags in healthcare: understanding Twitter hashtags and online engagement at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2016-2019 meetings. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 2020; 5:e000496. [PMID: 32923681 PMCID: PMC7462147 DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Revised: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Social media amplifies the accessibility, reach and impact of medical education and conferences alike. The use of hashtags at medical conferences allows material to be discussed and improved on by the experts via online conversation on Twitter. We aim to investigate the utilization of hashtags at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) meetings from 2016 to 2019 and its potential role in knowledge dissemination and meeting participations. METHODS Symplur Signals software was used to analyze hashtags for the AAST meetings by year: #AAST2016, #AAST2017, #AAST2018, #AAST2019. RESULTS Number of tweets decreased significantly from 2016 to 2019 (4500 to 4400 to 3600 to 2600, respectively, p<0.05). Retweets also decreased significantly from 2016 to 2019 (3600 to 3300 to 2600 to 1900, respectively, p<0.05). Users decreased from 2016 to 2019 (1600 to 1400 to 937 to 743, respectively, p<0.05). Despite this decrease, impressions were 5.8 million in 2016, increasing to 8.6 million in 2017, then 9.6 million in 2018 and finally peaking in 2019 where impressions reached 10 million (p<0.05). The top influencer for 2016-2019 was the AAST Twitter account. CONCLUSION Twitter #AAST 2016-2019 online engagement and interactions have declined during the last 4 years while impressions have grown steadily indicating potential widespread dissemination of trauma-related knowledge and evidence-based practices, and increased online utilization of conference material to trauma surgeons, residents and fellows, trauma scientists, other physicians and the lay public. #AAST online engagement and impressions did not have influence on meeting attendance rates.
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- Kristen Santarone
- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, Florida, USA
- Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, Florida, USA
- Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, Florida, USA
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Ziemba YC, Razzano D, Allen TC, Booth AL, Anderson SR, Champeaux A, Feldman MD, Fitzhugh V, Gittens S, Grider M, Gupta M, Hanos C, Kelly K, Kothari T, Laudadio J, Lin AY, Mirza KM, Montone KT, Prieto VG, Remick DG, Riddle ND, Schubert M, Suskie K, Zafar N, Robboy SJ, Markwood PS. Social Media Engagement at Academic Conferences: Report of the Association of Pathology Chairs 2018 and 2019 Annual Meeting Social Media Committee. Acad Pathol 2020; 7:2374289520934019. [PMID: 32733989 PMCID: PMC7370333 DOI: 10.1177/2374289520934019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2019] [Revised: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The use of social media at academic conferences is expanding, and platforms such as Twitter are used to share meeting content with the world. Pathology conferences are no exception, and recently, pathology organizations have promoted social media as a way to enhance meeting exposure. A social media committee was formed ad hoc to implement strategies to enhance social media involvement and coverage at the 2018 and 2019 annual meetings of the Association of Pathology Chairs. This organized approach resulted in an 11-fold increase in social media engagement compared to the year prior to committee formation (2017). In this article, the social media committee reviews the strategies that were employed and the resultant outcome data. In addition, we categorize tweets by topic to identify the topics of greatest interest to meeting participants, and we discuss the differences between Twitter and other social media platforms. Lastly, we review the existing literature on this topic from 23 medical specialties and health care fields.
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- Yonah C Ziemba
- Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA
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- Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Ruffolo, Hooper, and Associates; University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
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- University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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- Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Ruffolo, Hooper, and Associates; University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
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Preface of Special Issue "Cares in the Age of Communication: Health Education and Healthy Lifestyles": Social Media and Health Communication in a Pandemic? Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ 2020; 10:575-578. [PMID: 34542521 PMCID: PMC8314279 DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe10020042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Jimenez-Sotomayor MR, Gómez-Moreno C, Aguilar-Velazco JC, Torres-Perez AC, Chavarri-Guerra Y, Dale W, Soto-Perez-de-Celis E. Cancer, aging and Twitter: A mixed methods evaluation of tweets about Geriatric Oncology (#gerionc) and Geriatric Hematology (#geriheme). J Geriatr Oncol 2020; 11:1038-1040. [PMID: 32001202 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2020.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Revised: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Maria Renee Jimenez-Sotomayor
- Department of Geriatrics, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, CDMX 14080, Mexico; School of Medicine, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora 83000, Mexico
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- Department of Geriatrics, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, CDMX 14080, Mexico
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- Department of Geriatrics, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, CDMX 14080, Mexico
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- Department of Geriatrics, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, CDMX 14080, Mexico
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- Department of Hemato-Oncology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, CDMX 14080, Mexico
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- Department of Supportive Care Medicine, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, United States
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- Department of Geriatrics, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, CDMX 14080, Mexico.
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Mizuno A, Kishi T, Matsumoto C, Kawai F, Ishida M, Sanada S, Hokimoto S, Saito Y, Yamauchi-Takihara K, Komuro I, Node K. Potential Role of Twitter at an Annual Congress in Japan - Narrative Literature Review of "Tweet the Meeting". Circ Rep 2019; 1:401-404. [PMID: 33693076 PMCID: PMC7897545 DOI: 10.1253/circrep.cr-19-0046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Background:
Twitter has become increasingly popular at annual medical congresses as a platform to communicate to attendees. In contrast, Twitter is not as frequently used in Japan as compared with other countries. Herein, we reviewed the literature and discuss the potential role and risks of “tweet the meeting” in Japan. Methods and Results:
We performed a literature review to consider the recent trend of tweeting the meeting, including benefits and how to tweet, as well as potential risks. Upon officially deciding to tweet the meeting, a number of societies and professional organizations developed strategies to enhance the attendees’ experience using multiple modalities and guides. Although there are several risks, we provide a concise guide to tweeting the meeting for the Japanese audience, which could be useful for understanding what should be done before and during a conference. Conclusions:
The use of Twitter at medical congresses has many possibilities, and there are numerous potentials in many areas. We should discuss this in the light of the benefits for congress attendees in Japan.
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Affiliation(s)
- Atsushi Mizuno
- Department of Cardiology, St. Luke's International Hospital Tokyo Japan.,Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Advanced Risk Stratification for Cardiovascular Diseases, Center for Disruptive Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University Fukuoka Japan.,Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Center for Health Surveillance and Preventive Medicine, Tokyo Medical University Tokyo Japan.,Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- St. Luke's International University Library Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University Hiroshima Japan.,Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Medical Innovation, Osaka University Hospital Suita Japan.,Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Nursing and Social Welfare, Kyushu Nursing and Social Welfare University Tamana Japan.,Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nara Medical University Kashihara Japan.,Executive Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Suita Japan.,Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan.,Executive Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University Saga Japan.,Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan.,Executive Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan
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Callister MN, Robbins MS, Callister NR, Vargas BB. Tweeting the Headache Meetings: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Twitter Activity Surrounding American Headache Society Conferences. Headache 2019; 59:518-531. [PMID: 30891749 DOI: 10.1111/head.13500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To describe and analyze Twitter activity associated with American Headache Society (AHS) conferences and evaluate the potential for Twitter to promote education and public outreach. BACKGROUND Many medical and scientific conferences have adopted Twitter as a method of promoting discussion among attendees as well as increasing visibility. Relatively little is known, however, about the composition of conference Twitter activity, the participants, and the impact on broader Twitter discussions. METHODS We analyzed Twitter data from 5 AHS conferences held from 2014 to 2016 using their respective hashtags. Using the Symplur Healthcare Hashtags open social media search platform, we gathered data on numbers of tweets, impressions, participants, and mentions during a 10-day period surrounding each conference, as well as samples of Twitter accounts participating. Prominent accounts were categorized as individual medical professionals, other individuals, host organizations, health-related organizations, medical centers, and industry by cross-checking their Twitter profiles and conference registration lists. Larger samples of accounts participating in the 2016 conferences were also obtained and categorized similarly, with individual person accounts classified by conference registration status. A related prominent hashtag (#migraine) was also identified and Twitter usage before, during, and after each conference was analyzed to evaluate the impact of conference activity on broader Twitter conversations. RESULTS Nineteen thousand nine hundred thirty-six tweets were generated across the 5 conferences, with 11,531 (58%) created by the Top 10 participating accounts in each conference, which were primarily individual medical professionals and host organizations. Thirty-two million six hundred eighty-three thousand impressions were generated across the 5 conferences, with 24,656,000 (75%) coming from the Top 10 participants in each, particularly host organizations and other individuals. An average of 331 accounts participated in each conference. The Top 10 mentioned accounts in each conference (consisting of 21 unique accounts with 14 accounts in the Top 10 across multiple conferences, primarily individual medical professionals) received a total of 15,093 mentions. Among 135 unique accounts participating actively in the two 2016 conferences, 39% were individual medical professionals, 38% other individuals, 16% health-related organizations (including the 2 host organizations), 4% medical centers, and 2% industry. From these samples, 34 of 70 (49%) and 43 of 66 (65%) individual person accounts participating in the Twitter discussion at each conference were not registered conference attendees, indicating substantial outside participation via Twitter. #migraine usage during conferences showed a significant increase from baseline in number of tweets (6080 in a 10-day period vs 3721, P < .0001) and participants (2332 vs 1830, P < .0001) but the increase was not significant for impressions (30,155 vs 25,361, P = .240). CONCLUSIONS Consistent with the dynamics of Twitter conversations on other topics, AHS conference discussions featured a small group of accounts creating the bulk of content, with individual medical professionals and host organizations generating the largest shares of tweets and mentions while host organizations and other individuals produced the most impressions. Participating accounts were mainly individuals and health-related organizations, with more non-attendee participants than expected. Conference Twitter activity correlated with a significant increase in #migraine usage, suggesting a perceptible influence on the discussion of health-related topics beyond the conference itself.
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- Montefiore Headache Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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Madden K, Rapoport M, Maxwell C. Summer Issue, 2018. Can Geriatr J 2018; 21:138. [PMID: 29977427 PMCID: PMC6028173 DOI: 10.5770/cgj.21.333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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