Twitter and #MedEd Conference: Educational tool or a white noise

background channel?!

Alireza Jalali, Timothy Wood

@arjalali #CCME14 #OA4 Distinguished Teacher & Teaching Chair @ uOttawa

Social Media Advisor @ RCPSC!

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Je n’ai aucune affiliation (financière ou autre) avec une entreprise pharmaceutique, un fabricant d’appareils médicaux ou un cabinet de communication.

I do not have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a pharmaceutical, medical device or communications organization.  

•  "Texting" of Internet, 140 characters •  2013: +500 Million users, +250,000

tweets / minute •  # A hashtag is used to mark

keywords or topics in a tweet. •  @User  

#CCME13 #OB4

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Purpose: analyze information disseminated using twttr during #CCME13

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#CCME2012

#CCME13

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R twtrs chatting about #MedEd topics related to #CCME13 or creating background white noise?!

We analysed #CCME13 (24h before, during and 24h after). 3090 tweets from 288 tweeters. –  1569 tweets –  1160 retweets –  361 replies to another tweet.

Method

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Frequency of other #s associated with #ccme13 #s used by the largest numbers of the 288 Tweeters

DiscussionA

The analysis of tweets at CCME 2013 showed that Twitter was used to discuss the medical education themes related to the conference more often than for other purposes. Furthermore, evidence of this use of Twitter supports the suggestion that conference organizers should implement new innovations that would facilitate the use of social networking tools in the dissemination of relevant and useful information to a potentially wider audience.

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"In the electronic age in which information can be shared around the

world instantly, the contribution of large medical conferences to the dissemination and advancement of science is unclear. "

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