Integrating Geriatrics Knowledge into a Medical Student Clerkship Using Twitter Poll
Initiatives
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A controlled, prospective, 2‐year cohort observational study was conducted to test whether weekly geriatric questions delivered through Twitter Poll could improve geriatrics knowledge during an internal medicine clerkship for third‐year medical students.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2018
- End Year
- 2018
- Funding
- This study was supported by the Eva Gilbertson, MD, foundation. Findings from the first year of this study were reported at the annual scientific meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, San Antonio, Texas, May 18‐20, 2017.
Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
Marker Paper
Jurivich DA, Bande D, Theige D, et al. Integrating Geriatrics Knowledge into a Medical Student Clerkship Using Twitter Poll. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2018;66(12):2389‐2393. doi:10.1111/jgs.15633
PUBMED 30357809
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 78
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
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Timeline
third‐year medical students'
A controlled, prospective, 2‐year cohort observational study was conducted to test whether weekly geriatric questions delivered through Twitter Poll could improve geriatrics knowledge during an internal medicine clerkship for third‐year medical students.
Selection Criteria
- Newborns
- Twins
- Countries
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- United States of America
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- General population
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 78
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
A prospective observational study was designed to assess third‐year medical students' knowledge before and after an 8‐week Twitter Poll experience during their internal medicine clerkship. An invitation‐only Twitter Poll account was established. The University of North Dakota institutional review board approved the project.
- Start Date
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2018
- End Date
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2015
- Data sources
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Social media
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Social media