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ArticleMedical science educator2023

The #Tweetorial: an Underutilized Teaching Tool in Undergraduate Medical Education?

Ricky Tsang, Karen E Pinder

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Article in Medical science educator, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ricky Tsang2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 Canada Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.ORCID 0000-0002-8129-2978
Karen E Pinder2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 Canada Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tweetorials are short, self-contained Twitter threads that provide a concise overview of a topic. Recently, they have gained prominence in the Twitter medical community (#MedTwitter) as a medium for teaching and reviewing topics from foundational medical physiological concepts through to complex clinical case presentations. With medical schools increasingly utilizing case-based learning in their curricula, the Tweetorial may have a role in bridging the foundational and clinical sciences while challenging the clinical decision-making acumen of learners. We outline how Tweetorials may be utilized to support self-directed, asynchronous learning amidst increasingly brimming medical curricula and provide undergraduate medical students real-time access to educators, and discuss limitations that may hamper their implementation.

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Medical educationMedTwitterTweetorialsUGME

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PMID37251204
PMCPMC9989994

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