Social Media Workshop website now open

Yesterday Matt Sparks, Kenar Jhaveri, and I ran a social media workshop at the NKF Spring Clinical Meeting. We were given the opportunity to do a workshop rather than a few lectures, so we really focused on making the workshop interactive. As such we did not have a slide deck, but rather created a website with all of the content.

The workshop operated by having Matt and I narrate our experience as we navigated the website from introduction through professionalism. The participants created a blog post and tweeted and debated ethical issues in social media. It was an information dense two hours. We thought it went great.

Take a look at the materials here.

The Twitter4Nephrons, disappeared from the primary navigation bar at the top of the site. It can now be found in the about folder.

#NephJC summary for HOPE-3 is Up

Check out the home page - great job by Peter Gallacher putting it together. See you all on April 26th or 27th. We hope to have an author online at the chat too. More soon!

Twitter polls redux

A few months ago, we wrote about the nephro-twitterverse discovering twitter polls. Graham Abra and Thomas Hiemstra were early adopters, though response rates were ~ 20-40 at best then. But there are many more, with much better response rates. Check them out:

During #NephMadness, Krishna Penmatsa made a bunch of #PredictaPolls - check some notable ones:

Top Qualifier from Hypertension region at #NephMadness 2016 will be#PredictaPoll 📊

— Krishna Penmatsa (@krishnadoctor1) March 12, 2016

Top Qualifier from Pediatrics region at #NephMadness 2016 will be#PredictaPoll 📊

— Krishna Penmatsa (@krishnadoctor1) March 12, 2016

Top Qualifier from Palliative Care region at #NephMadness 2016 will be#PredictaPoll 📊

— Krishna Penmatsa (@krishnadoctor1) March 12, 2016

Graham, again, on IgA nephropathy and pregnancy

Young female w/ IgA nephropathy. Nml Cr. <500 mg/day proteinuria. Nml BP. Wants to get pregnant. You advise:

— Graham Abra, MD (@GrahamAbra) 19 December 2015

Tomas Rohal on tweeps preference of social networks

Really easy nephro poll (survey for short talk). Which social networks do you use communicating nephro stuff? Thx!

— Tomas Rohal (@calvapo) March 18, 2016

Matt on the deprescribing PPI question

Are you actively deprescribing PPIs in pts with no indication secondary to CKD association?

— Matt Sparks (@Nephro_Sparks) 16 April 2016

And the PPI article we discussed at #NephJC was actually decided on the basis of a twitter poll too!

Pick the next article NephJC article details at: https://t.co/hNluoTVqkg

— Nephrology Jrnl Club (@NephJC) 24 February 2016

What RRT modality would nephrons choose for themselves (sparked by a tweet from Scherly at #HDu)

Poll (only Nephrologists/fellows please). If *you* have ESRD, no living donor, Tx wait time > 5 years, would choose

— Swapnil Hiremath, MD (@hswapnil) April 18, 2016

Matt again on how nephrons  refer to themselves

How do you refer to yourself to family and friends? (only nephrons please)

— Matt Sparks (@Nephro_Sparks) April 18, 2016

Joel (was he making fun of my #DreamRCT, #MAGIK?) 

Does anybody really think supplementing Mg in ESRD would improve outcomes? https://t.co/fWOgS6QyRa

— Joel Topf, MD FACP (@kidney_boy) January 27, 2016

#NephJC on desensitization & the winners of the #NEJMCup

This was another great #NephJC. Notable for many firsts:

• Hosting debuts by #NSMC intern, Silvi Shah, and RenalMed founder, Matt Graham-Brown (the latter also wrote the pre-chat summary)
• Lot of fresh faces (hello Pawan, Todd and Sian) and over 700 tweets from more than 60 tweeps

The transcripts and storifys are also already done - and up on the page, due to uber-fast curation from Hector.

Lastly, we have the pleasure of announcing the winners of the coveted #NEJMCup. There were many great tweets, so it took some time to sift through all the nominees. Here are the winning tweets:

T1: If faced the option of wait listing or incompatible living donor, I would be willing to take the risk #NephJC

— Kevin J. Fowler (@gratefull080504) April 13, 2016

@NephJC @calvapo #nephjc UK data also shows advantage but less impressive. Patient choice and expectation so important

— Sian Griffin (@toomuchaltitude) April 13, 2016

Congratulations, Kevin and Sian! Your #NEJMCups should be on the way soon, courtesy of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Announcing the #NEJMCup for the next #NephJC, courtesy @NEJM

We are discussing an NEJM article next week (on that note check out the summary, written by Matt Graham-Brown). The hurdle? Its behind a subscriber-only wall - and this is an issue that has come up as a barrier for many of us not in academia or with a personal subscription to the Journal. However, the nice people at the Journal have kindly agreed to make it easily accessible for #NephJC readers - use the link on our summary page, and you will get the full text. 

But there is more good news. Like what we have done in the past with JAMA, the best tweet of the night will get a prize. One for each chat. 

The #NEJMCup!

Lastly, thanks to Lisa Rosenbaum for opening to doors to NEJM for us.