Few of us started blogging at National conferences, some of us tweeting like a storm. Finally, the academic community noticed this and soon ASN, NKF and all wanted tweets and blogs of their events. The first landmark paper summarizing some of this was in AJKD in 2011.
Following that, was the birth of AJKDblog or then called eAJKD. This allowed for more collaboration and more social media to flourish in nephrology and leading to the ultimate- Nephmadness ( mastermind game by the Topf Sparks team) in 2013.
After 2013, nothing was stopping nephrology to take the lead in social media.
From NephJC to tweetorials to whatsApp to creation of NSMC-- happening so fast and furious!
Nephrologists quickly stormed the social media world to lead and show how it's done!
In NDT is a brief tutorial for how to be social media savvy.
Academic journals- AJKDBlog
Journal club- NephJC
Well ironed blogs- Renal Fellow Network
Online Successfully run interactive game for over 7 years- Nephmadness
Online academy of educators for future social media wannabees- NSMC
Every fellowship program trying to have a twitter account and social media presence.
What else can you ask for?
All this is summarized in recent issue in Seminars in Nephrology by guest editor Joel Topf and includes all various aspects of the social media
Here is a nice tweetorial by Chan on the entire issue
Seminars in Nephrology has an entire issue devoted to social media in the discipline of nephrology.— Teresa Chan (@TChanMD) June 20, 2020
The mastermind @kidney_boy highlights the contents here:https://t.co/1XhYQLpEyS pic.twitter.com/OQs757SxmI
Introduction to social media
Tweet or not to tweet
Twitter based journal clubs
Tweetorials
Podcasting
Newsletters
Visual abstracts
Slack
Semi-private Apps ( WhatsApp)
FOAM quality
NSMC
Congratulation to the nephrology community to being leaders in education via social media in medicine!
