Twitter Journal Club provides a place where doctors, medical students, and anyone else who is interested, can discuss publications relevant to clinical medicine. In many respects it operates in same way as any other journal club, except that the forum is Twitter.
We try to pick papers that are particularly significant and will be relevant to a wide range of people. You can use the #TwitJC tag to suggest papers at any time.
Anyone is welcome, including (and, indeed, particularly) students, with one aim being to provide an opportunity for medical students to learn by discussing papers with practicing doctors.
About Us
Fi Douglas (@fidouglas) is a medical student at Cambridge, who will spend next year completing an intercalated BA in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Her main interests are in public health, developmental biology, mental health, and diving medicine. She hopes to pursue a career in academic medicine.
Natalie Silvey (@silv24) is a junior doctor in the West Midlands and is currently a foundation programme trainee. Her main interests are in global health, medical education and intensive care medicine. She hopes to pursue a career in intensive care medicine.
Brilliant idea. Thanks for coming up with yet another way to use Twitter. Although I shall not be able to participate in the discussions actively, since its too late, I would like to catch up the archived discussions (would be great if you posted them here!)…
Also, the Rivers paper is a wonderful choice for the opening TwitJC.
All the best!
Thanks! We plan to archive the entire discussion, tweet by tweet, using Storify or similar, but also provide a blog post that summarises the points that came up, which should be done by early the following week.
This sounds like a great idea, and I would love to join in, but is there any chance of rethinking the time? Sundays at 8 pm is when I’m far more likely to be relaxing with a nice glass of wine than thinking about work.
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How about connecting to facebook aswell?
That’s definitely a possibility which we’ll look into.
Hi well done for getting this going – nice use of Twitter. Maybe you could get the papers’ authors involved in some way?
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*interesting* i must confess that i’m impressed with how much work you’ve been doing, keep it up. I was just alot curious to see what other medical students’ journal clubs around the world are doing. And wow! This is some good work. Also feel free to access my journal club’s site: http://www.ifemedjc.com
Dare Adetuberu
(Editor in Chief) IFEMEDjournalclub, journal of the medical students of Obafemi Awolowo university
Great idea I look forward to reading the rest of your articles!! I have started using Twitter in the last few months and am focused on gaining tons of followers quickly at the moment. So far I have gotten 113,000 without having to buy any, I’ll check back in soon.