Friday 1 August 2014

A Twitter-based Geriatric Medicine Journal Club (#GeriMedJC) ? Sounds like a great idea ... except I don't use Twitter!

The Twitter version of the Geriatric Medicine Journal Club facilitates continuing medical education (CME) and promotes international  discussion of recent literature in Geriatric Medicine. #GeriMedJC will occur monthly concurrent with the live journal club that takes place at the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto.  To follow the discussion please use #GeriMedJC and include this in all your tweets.

Don't yet have a Twitter account?  Follow these steps:

1. Sign up for Twitter at twitter.com using your name and email address.

2. After you have created a Twitter account you will be asked to follow a few people. Add @GeriMedJC. This account is where the date, time and articles for the the next Geriatric Medicine Journal Club will be announced.

3. To follow or participate with any tweets for the journal club tweet chat, use #GeriMedJC. For any tweets you write, add #GeriMedJC in the tweet (this serves as a "keyword" and enables anyone interested to follow the discussion without necessarily following all the participants directly).

A few other useful links include:

Basics of twitter: http://www.momthisishowtwitterworks.com/
Twitter guide to lingo: http://mashable.com/2013/07/19/twitter-lingo-guide/

CPSO and CMA guidelines on the appropriate use of social media

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