Month: August 2019

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The social media and medical education talk at Vanderbilt

Earlier this year I got the opportunity to speak at Brigham and Women’s Nephrology division. I had spent a lot of time and thought in updating my Social Media and Medical Education talk. For the first time I added Podcasts and Tweetorials, two of the most exciting developments in social media medical education.

Then on the day of my presentation I had “technical problems” connecting my MacBook Air to BWH’s projector (what is this 2003?). So I logged into iCloud and ran an older version of the presentation from iCloud using the online version of Keynote on the PC connected to the projector. The idea that I can run my presentation, with fonts, images, animations on a browser version of Keynote on a PC is truly amazing. Hats off to the Apple engineers.

But that meant the newest version of the talk was still “unpublished.” So I was delighted to get a generous invitation from Vanderbilt to speak at medicine grand rounds.

So this past Thursday I traveled to Nashville and I was able to present this presentation. And now that it is “published”, I am offering the presentation for you to present, edit and repurpose in any way you desire (no permission required, go at it):

  • Keynote (this is the native format) (1.16 gb)
  • Powerpoint (this is an exported version of the native Keynote, so it has questionable fidelity) (744.7 mb)
  • PDF (317 mb)

And what an amazing nephrology department. Holy moly what a deep bench. Loved getting a chance to talk with Ray Harris, Anna Burgner, Tom Golper, Jay Bhave, Kerri Cavanaugh, Alp Ikizler, Julie Lewis, Be a Concepcion, Davika Nair, Leslie Gewin. and Edward Gould.

If you are applying to nephrology fellowship and don’t have Vanderbilt on your list, you are doing it wrong.