#41 - Is #Meded Dead? Social Media & knowledge translation in HPE

02/27/24 • 37 min

To thrive, every academic community strives for greater knowledge dissemination and translation. Can HPE succeed on social media using a hashtag like #meded? These authors rated tweets using knowledge translation criteria, and the results were surprising.
Episode host: Jason Frank
Episode article: Giroux, C. M., Maggio, L. A., Saldanha, C., Bussières, A., & Thomas, A. (2023). Twitter as a Mechanism of Knowledge Translation in Health Professions Education: An Exploratory Content Analysis. Perspectives on medical education, 12(1), 529–539. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.1053
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Hosts: Lara Varpio, Jason Frank, Jonathan Sherbino, Linda Snell
Technical Producer: Samuel Lundberg
Executive Producer: Teresa Sörö
Production of Unit for teaching and learning at Karolinska Institutet

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#40 - That’s a Terrible Idea. Sign me Up! MHPE programs around the world

WHY are these MHPE program so popular? In this episode, the hosts discuss the explosion of Master’s in Health Professions Education programs around the world. They discuss a paper reporting on the goals of these programs, the expectations Directors have of the graduates, and future directions.
Episode host: Lara Varpio
Episode notes on the website
Episode article: Tekian, A., Dekhtyar, M., & Park, Y. S. (2023). The rapid growth and expansion of Master of health professions education (MHPE) programs: A mixed-methods study of international curricular trends and guidelines for programs. Medical teacher, 1–8. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2023.2284657
Hosts: Lara Varpio, Jason Frank, Jonathan Sherbino, Linda Snell
Technical Producer: Samuel Lundberg
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#42 - Will being active on social media get you a professorship?

Use of social and digital media is under recognized as an academic activity, and generally work in this area does not ‘count’ towards academic advancement ... yet. How does one measure the quantity and quality of these activities as scholarship? Listen in on this week's episode where we discuss a framework for "measuring" Social end Digital Media contributions in your academic career.
Episode host: Linda Snell
Fitzgerald, J. J., Losee, J. E., Roth, R. N., Pettigrew, C., & Thamman, R. (2023). A Worksheet to Quantify Social and Digital Media Content as Scholarly Products for Academic Promotion. Academic Medicine, 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005628. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000005628
Visit the episode webpage for notes and links
Hosts: Lara Varpio, Jason Frank, Jonathan Sherbino, Linda Snell
Technical Producer: Samuel Lundberg
Executive Producer: Teresa Sörö
Production of Unit for teaching and learning at Karolinska Institutet