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Documenting Social Media Engagement as Scholarship: A New Model for Assessing Academic Accomplishment for the Health Professions.

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Acquaviva, KD; Mugele, J; Abadilla, N; Adamson, T; Bernstein, SL; Bhayani, RK; Büchi, AE; Burbage, D; Carroll, CL; Davis, SP; Dhawan, N ...
Published in: Journal of medical Internet research
December 2020

The traditional model of promotion and tenure in the health professions relies heavily on formal scholarship through teaching, research, and service. Institutions consider how much weight to give activities in each of these areas and determine a threshold for advancement. With the emergence of social media, scholars can engage wider audiences in creative ways and have a broader impact. Conventional metrics like the h-index do not account for social media impact. Social media engagement is poorly represented in most curricula vitae (CV) and therefore is undervalued in promotion and tenure reviews.The objective was to develop crowdsourced guidelines for documenting social media scholarship. These guidelines aimed to provide a structure for documenting a scholar's general impact on social media, as well as methods of documenting individual social media contributions exemplifying innovation, education, mentorship, advocacy, and dissemination.To create unifying guidelines, we created a crowdsourced process that capitalized on the strengths of social media and generated a case example of successful use of the medium for academic collaboration. The primary author created a draft of the guidelines and then sought input from users on Twitter via a publicly accessible Google Document. There was no limitation on who could provide input and the work was done in a democratic, collaborative fashion. Contributors edited the draft over a period of 1 week (September 12-18, 2020). The primary and secondary authors then revised the draft to make it more concise. The guidelines and manuscript were then distributed to the contributors for edits and adopted by the group. All contributors were given the opportunity to serve as coauthors on the publication and were told upfront that authorship would depend on whether they were able to document the ways in which they met the 4 International Committee of Medical Journal Editors authorship criteria.We developed 2 sets of guidelines: Guidelines for Listing All Social Media Scholarship Under Public Scholarship (in Research/Scholarship Section of CV) and Guidelines for Listing Social Media Scholarship Under Research, Teaching, and Service Sections of CV. Institutions can choose which set fits their existing CV format.With more uniformity, scholars can better represent the full scope and impact of their work. These guidelines are not intended to dictate how individual institutions should weigh social media contributions within promotion and tenure cases. Instead, by providing an initial set of guidelines, we hope to provide scholars and their institutions with a common format and language to document social media scholarship.

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Journal of medical Internet research

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EISSN

1438-8871

ISSN

1439-4456

Publication Date

December 2020

Volume

22

Issue

12

Start / End Page

e25070

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Media
  • Medical Informatics
  • Humans
  • Health Occupations
  • Fellowships and Scholarships
  • 4203 Health services and systems
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
  • 08 Information and Computing Sciences
 

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Acquaviva, K. D., Mugele, J., Abadilla, N., Adamson, T., Bernstein, S. L., Bhayani, R. K., … Trudell, A. M. (2020). Documenting Social Media Engagement as Scholarship: A New Model for Assessing Academic Accomplishment for the Health Professions. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(12), e25070. https://doi.org/10.2196/25070
Acquaviva, Kimberly D., Josh Mugele, Natasha Abadilla, Tyler Adamson, Samantha L. Bernstein, Rakhee K. Bhayani, Annina Elisabeth Büchi, et al. “Documenting Social Media Engagement as Scholarship: A New Model for Assessing Academic Accomplishment for the Health Professions.Journal of Medical Internet Research 22, no. 12 (December 2020): e25070. https://doi.org/10.2196/25070.
Acquaviva KD, Mugele J, Abadilla N, Adamson T, Bernstein SL, Bhayani RK, et al. Documenting Social Media Engagement as Scholarship: A New Model for Assessing Academic Accomplishment for the Health Professions. Journal of medical Internet research. 2020 Dec;22(12):e25070.
Acquaviva, Kimberly D., et al. “Documenting Social Media Engagement as Scholarship: A New Model for Assessing Academic Accomplishment for the Health Professions.Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 22, no. 12, Dec. 2020, p. e25070. Epmc, doi:10.2196/25070.
Acquaviva KD, Mugele J, Abadilla N, Adamson T, Bernstein SL, Bhayani RK, Büchi AE, Burbage D, Carroll CL, Davis SP, Dhawan N, Eaton A, English K, Grier JT, Gurney MK, Hahn ES, Haq H, Huang B, Jain S, Jun J, Kerr WT, Keyes T, Kirby AR, Leary M, Marr M, Major A, Meisel JV, Petersen EA, Raguan B, Rhodes A, Rupert DD, Sam-Agudu NA, Saul N, Shah JR, Sheldon LK, Sinclair CT, Spencer K, Strand NH, Streed CG, Trudell AM. Documenting Social Media Engagement as Scholarship: A New Model for Assessing Academic Accomplishment for the Health Professions. Journal of medical Internet research. 2020 Dec;22(12):e25070.

Published In

Journal of medical Internet research

DOI

EISSN

1438-8871

ISSN

1439-4456

Publication Date

December 2020

Volume

22

Issue

12

Start / End Page

e25070

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Media
  • Medical Informatics
  • Humans
  • Health Occupations
  • Fellowships and Scholarships
  • 4203 Health services and systems
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
  • 08 Information and Computing Sciences