Thread by @BilalMohammadMD

1/11 #GITwitter is on 🔥 w #MedEd

It all started on one #MondayNight @DCharabaty

@MondayNightIBD was created & led the way for other platforms incl @ScopingSundays

👇#Tweetorial:Setting up Structured #MedEd Platforms on Social Media in @AGA_Gastro

📜bit.ly/3VR49qB

2/11 Firstly ❓- Are #SoMe based #MedEd platforms & activities useful?

This survey by @DCharabaty & team 📝 at @DDWMeeting shows:

✅ Respondents suggesting change in practice based on discussions in 👆
✅ Enhances collaborations
✅ Promotes decision making
✅ Opport networking

3/11 Ready to get started ?

🟣Align Handle & Audience to your Educational Interest
🟣Create educational handle separate from your personal account
🟣Self-explanatory name & logo
🟣Determine 🎯 audience to curate content that will optimize engagement

Step-by-step guide 👇

4/11 Choose Relevant Topics

✅ Specific topic w max of 3 learning objectives
✅ Determine target audience & tailor content to them
✅ Focused high-level conversations exploring nuances

5/11 Select Educators/Experts / Panelists

🔸 Invite experts & moderators
🔸different career stages, practice settings = different perspectives
🔸Include non-GI clinicians: CRS, radiology, dietician, psych
🔸Create an inclusive environment 
🔸 Patient advocates and support groups

6/11 Make An Announcement! 📣🚨
📢 Recurrent 📆 & 🕰: followers know what to expect
📢 Promote early!
📢 Use # ! General or topic specific
📢 Tag like minded colleagues to attract colleagues with interest in topic

7/11 Activity Design

🗒 Format that encourages participation, interval posts
🗒 Be inclusive
🗒 Explore factors influencing clinical decisions
🗒 Polls to initiate discussions
🗒 Use visual media to disseminate 🔑 info
🗒 Prepare ahead!

8/11 Assess, Evaluate, Adjust

👩‍💻 gather audience feedback
✍️ adjust content &  format to meet audience needs
📈 Disseminate Likert scale-based survey to learners
📊 CME pre and post activity questions to evaluate impact 
🔥🔥@MondayNightIBD provides official #CME

9/11 Summarize Educational Sessions

✅ Content retention & accessibility are 🔑
✅ Compile tweets from each activity into easy to read format
✅ Summaries of discussions created & shared
✅ Examples: #IBDAlgorithms & #ScopingSummary

10/11 The #MedEd Work on these #SoMe is not only social

✅ Used for academic promotion (already incorp by @MayoClinic) 👇

✅ Keep a social media portfolio

✅ How to highlight your work on #GI educational platforms - 👀 this 📜 in @NatRevGastroHep

👉nature.com/articles/s4157…

11/11 Lastly, the big uncertainty - what happens to this platform filled w #MedEd, collaborations and friendships ?

This #Mastodon post by “Valerie” sums it all !

Its not the platform, its the community

Much 💙 to #GITwitter & #MedTwitter