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\"Justin<\/a>

Justin Davis, MBBS, is a Chief Resident at Barwon Health in Geelong, Australia.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thinking back on it now, I can\u2019t quite recall why<\/em> I first decided to get a Twitter account. My suspicion is that I wanted to follow the amusing tweets of Jim Sterling who works in the videogame industry and whose work I closely follow. What did happen, of course, is that I eventually realised that, aside from amusing tweets from video game personalities (I might have also done it to follow some of the bigger streamers for Destiny, one of my favourite games, but we\u2019ll never know for sure),\u00a0you could also follow a whole bunch of medical journals (such as the New England Journal of Medicine, to pick an entirely random example) who would tweet out important information about various trials or other medical titbits. Naturally, being a current advanced trainee in nephrology, I gravitated towards nephrology-based journals and publications, and that\u2019s where I stumbled across the topic of today’s bunch of words on a website.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t work in the field of nephrology (and most of you probably don\u2019t \u2014\u00a0I mean, I don\u2019t know why<\/em>, because nephrology is awesome, but most of you probably are in other fields), or even if you do<\/em> work in the field of nephrology, you probably haven\u2019t heard of the Nephrology Social Media Collective (NSMC). I\u2019m not sure if\u00a0my current bosses are aware of my involvement in the NSMC or even know that it exists, but therein lies the point of this blog post, no?<\/p>\n

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The NSMC logo in all its glory.<\/p><\/div>\n

Before I go on, let me point out a couple of things. The first is that\u00a0I\u2019ve been lucky enough to land an internship\u00a0within the NSMC this year (more on this later). I\u2019m humbled that people would enjoy these random, slightly incoherent collections of words enough to allow me to be part of their internship program (which is surprisingly more involved than I had initially suspected \u2014\u00a0there\u2019s even a curriculum). The next is that I\u2019m writing about this for a couple reasons. One is that I\u2019m very proud of my chosen speciality for taking the lead and spearheading a program like this, which to the best of my knowledge hasn\u2019t been replicated elsewhere, to increase\u00a0use of social media as it is increasingly taken up by various medical facilities.\u00a0NSMC supports free open-access medical education (FOAMed), which\u00a0provides\u00a0access to knowledge not only to those from advantaged areas but perhaps others that are less so (for an example of an amazingly well done open-access resource, check out Radiopaedia, led by a fellow Aussie, Frank Gaillard \u2014\u00a0I\u2019m always proud of anything that someone from the Land Down Under manages to create). The second (the second point of my second point \u2014\u00a0does that work?) is that I feel privileged to be a part of this collective and want to promote their work to a wider audience, in hope of both increasing exposure and perhaps spurring the thoughts of those outside of the nephrology field to find out what might be available through social media.<\/p>\n

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Einstein does make it tricky to write blog posts when he decides to sit right there.<\/p><\/div>\n

So, as\u00a0for the NSMC itself (and apologies to any of the faculty if I slightly mess this section up, but this is to the best of my understanding), it is a program launched in 2015 by a group of nephrologists with the aim of mentoring a new generation of nephrology-based colleagues with informative, engaging, and educational content on a social media platform (Twitter being the main one, but also through their website at NephJC and blog posts) to promote nephrology-based FOAMed.\u00a0They\u2019ve developed a curriculum for new interns\u00a0that promotes engagement with the community as a whole, involvement in the twice-monthly journal discussions held over Twitter with the hastag #NephJC, blog posts that\u00a0critique important articles within the nephrology research community,\u00a0and nephmadness (I’m non-American and not exposed to March Madness on a regular basis,\u00a0but my understanding is that this is a basketball tournament), which functions in a similar way to the aforementioned basketball extravaganza with knockouts based around educational topics in nephrology. The aim, by the end of the year-long program, is to produce interns who are competent in the aforementioned skills and who are interested in producing further educational content in a free, open-access manner for others\u2019 benefit. There\u2019s a fantastic sense of altruism and community within the program, and the faculty gives up a lot of their time to help ensure the program\u2019s success and ongoing growth.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been lucky to find myself amongst the fifth class of interns that has had access to NSMC.\u00a0I\u00a0want to promote the good work that the NSMC has been doing to further education within the nephrology community, and I hope to have something to contribute throughout my time with them. So if you feel in any way inspired by my paragraphs, I encourage you to check out the NephJC website, perhaps peruse their stuff on Twitter, or just generally get around the growing nephrology social media community. You might even see some contributions from my own Twitter account (when the Aussie time zone difference doesn\u2019t place the journal club timing right in the middle of clinic or ward rounds. Australia, hey?). You might also learn some obscure, but interesting, facts about Super Mario games, because they\u2019re fun to retweet too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere you come from is not important. It\u2019s for what you do that you will be remembered\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, there\u00a0are ongoing quotes. Because, why not?<\/p>\n

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