Social Media Behavior
How to think when someone takes a shot
The #MedEd discussion on Thursday Nights is some of the most intelligent tweets I see every week. I don’t go often enough but when I do it is always equally entertaining and educational.
Last Thursday I was flying to Austin and had inflight WiFi. Score. The discussion was around the value of Scholarly Activity.
I see some a lot of resident research and I see some residents get a lot out of their research experience, but more common seems to be residents mailing it in.
I tweeted some of my thought, here were the three quotes:
Josh Herigon read the transcript after the dicussion and then wrote a blog post about how I was wrong. You can read it here:
http://www.medi.io/blog/2014/1/-real-science-is-so-much-more-than-controlled-trials
Then he tweeted me to make sure I knew that he was calling me out.
This is the important moment. The time when you need to turn down the reaction speed and think before you tweet. Josh, is of course right. A lot of science, and a lot of good science, can and is done by residents. A good research experience can very well turn out to be the best education a resident can recieve. We shouldn’t write it off with little thought. The response to poor resident research is to run the programs better not abandon them.
I’m no good at research and the longer I’m in my career the more clear this becomes. I love to teach other people's research.
Josh, good work. I agree with your post. And I am glad that my tweets made at least one person drop to sublight speed and compose a thoughtful blog post.
Some of the discussion that went on down stream from three part tweet above:
