Category: Lectures and Presentations

I have been thinking about the role of social media in the pandemic. This is the first medical crisis not the age of the public physician and social media. It has resulted in some some fascinating developments. Some of the changes that came about because of the pandemic will indelibly change medicine and most of them are for the better.

I started thinking about it this past August as part of an invited essay on the topic by Blood Purification. I worked this paper with The Curbsiders’ Paul Williams. We looked at the role of public physicians this time of intense public interest.

The new Impact Factor for Academia 👇🏼#medEd #SoMe https://t.co/8WlZTIK4I8 pic.twitter.com/Hk1C2qE7uJ

— Jake McClure, M.D. (@jake_mcclure) March 22, 2017

We leaned into the definition of public physician created by Bryan Vartabedian. Take a look at the manuscript (PDF link).

I used that paper as a jumping off point for a talk I gave on Social Media and the Pandemic for the Renal Research Institute. I started focused talk on the changes in medical education, looking at how traditional medical education fell apart in the face of social distancing while FOAMed took off.

The RRI is the research arm of Fresenius and they run a top notch nephrology meeting every year. This year, the meeting is in May but they had a few speakers record their talks for release in January. Mine just came out.

I recorded that lecture in mid-late December.

The most recent thinking on this topic was for Innovations in Media and Education Delivery (iMED) Initiative at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center first annual conference. I had the honor of presenting the keynote talk. Here I continued my focus on the impact the pandemic had on medical education and the role FOAMed played. A lot of the bones of the talk were there in the RRI talk but the connective tissue is much stronger.

There is no public recording of the talk, but you can take a look at my slides:

Keynote: The Pandemic blows up #FOAMed (526 MB)

PowerPoint: The Pandemic blows up #FOAMed (251 MB) Note: I create, rehearse and deliver the presentation in Keynote. The PowerPoint version is a simple export of the Keynote presentation and often looks like garbage. If you want to see the presentation as it was meant to be, use Keynote.

PDF: The Pandemic blows up #FOAMed (86MB)

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.