Thread by @usnehal

Agree and...

Many of us also saw an ugly side of ivory tower

multiple out of touch clinicians & non-clinical faculty overpolicing minority, LGBTQ, women clinicians, trainees, students

Revealing what drives distrust of institutions/faculty

Must fix this for effective #SciComm

https://twitter.com/PLOSBiology/status/1355149950531686402

#SciComm currently lacks Black or marginalized group (including BIPOC, disabled, etc) leadership within it which explains why so called leaders within it cannot recognize effective public health messaging that works in communities of color, marginalized groups.

Need more:

https://twitter.com/katewalshceo/status/1338608017038856192

This video shared by @KateWalshCEO of @The_BMC represents a divide in #SciComm & #MedTwitter & #professionalism
Some find clinicians dancing offensive
The thing with diversity is not everyone at an institution is on the same page, evidenced by #Medbikini

nytimes.com/2020/08/02/us/…

When there is that diversity of thoughts within an institution

including some who believe speaking on gun violence is outside the allowed scope of doctors (despite treating effects of gun violence)
=a disconnect

CEO like @KateWalshCEO may signal #DEI

while others enforce this

Am not suggesting there is any easy answer to managing culture change in #medicine. I AM asking visionary c-suite to recognize their communication advances ahead of all their staff

if their managers/faculty are not fully on board

is the lowest ranking who get penalized
or this:

Appreciate @KateWalshCEO posting a #TikTok w/ BIPOC dancing on hospital property as within the scope of #professionalism

Am highlighting this is a culture change & controversy that needs to be acknowledged

trainees, students, staff protected when they emulate
Some TikTok is 👍🏾

Speaking of #medicine & #MedTwitter broadly, we ssend wrong or mixed messages. We know black women like @staceyabrams @KamalaHarris do the hard work to flip elections fair & square. Yet who do we hold up as role models?

#pediatrics & @PASMeeting has a problem w/ WOC leadership:

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1254743180290994176

@JulieSilverMD has published in the problem in #pediatrics, a field that prides self on & teaches activism. These stats worsen if an intersectional lens taken of looking at women +/- race, orientation, disability, etc, etc. #MedTwitter @AmerAcadPeds

So much worse in other fields

https://twitter.com/juliesilvermd/status/1070165922323853317

I don’t see taught in #SciComm: how to be trustworthy

By default then #SciComm teaching fails to teach how to be effective

So then that teaching becomes waste, even harm

So I agree with @PeterHotez: rise of anti-science rhetoric

but we have to examine the WHY
assess drivers

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1355324900823732224

I wrote this ages ago on violations of #ethics in #mentalhealth

censured by Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) @Columbia #NYC

#psychtwitter is full of various types of ethical murkiness for profit that harms profession & trust

that must stop

mic.com/articles/73001…

Personally I have my physical safety threatened by highly armed alt right as well as wrongly labeled by faculty who themselves violate or evade ethics.

As a Muslim American I have never felt fully safe.

I accept: just is how it is.

I may as well speak freely as is my right.

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1348616776884613120

I do pride myself on creating safe spaces for diversity, neurodiversity including autism or ADHD, LGBTQ, WOC, all ages, disability, etc. Having team-determined norms and respecting internal processes is important when breaking boundaries & disrupting, like in a #hackathon

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1353520484168642563

Things are not okay or safe, including in Boston area hospitals as I describe in this #podcast w/ @becker_sbecker

Bias, racism, wrong application of rules harms staff and patients. It negatively affects #quality & #safety. That also impacts bottom line

go.beckershospitalreview.com/scott-becker-i…

#TikTok is a new frontier of #SciComm that has a lot of merit, tho, like anything, has risks too. It gets us out of walls of ivory tower and into a sphere of influence to access new audiences and to pitch our concepts to engage and invite. It gets past silos and boundaries.

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1346216445038964736

We also have to find novel and effective collaborations to extend our reach

We MUST get past the “expert” & individual merit model academia promotes to learn from people like @DrJCoftheDC whose message on #publichealth #mentalhealth #equity #blackmensmiling was spread by @nflpa

https://twitter.com/nflpa/status/1256584566279675906

A clear divide between those shushing & shaming to stay within bounds

vs those expressing, innovating, breaking silos, disrupting status quo, “respecting” no bound(arie)s

The divide is often by race, disability, LGBTQ

or just an authentic commitment to equity
#AmandaGorman

Regardless of gender, we need people to push boundaries, question authority & status quo

Advocate for access, quality, safety, value. There are ways to do so within existing processes or by disruption

Be sure to make people uncomfortable at least part of the time for progress

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1265425020551077888

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