Using social media in surgery and medicine: conference presentation from ESCP

1. Collaboratives, Colleagues & Campaigns:
Connecting trainees across social media
Dr J Edward Fitzgerald
@DrEdFitzgerald

2. Why use social media?
Peer support Education
Medico-political engagement
Society and organisation updates CPD
Events and opportunities Collaboration
Professional networking
Patient engagement
‘Remote conferencing’

3. Viral Surgery: #ILookLikeASurgeon

5. Getting the most out of social media
Simple message: Focus your feeds!

6. How to join the Twitter conversation?
# Hashtag
#ESCP2016
#ColorectalSurgery
#SurgTweeting
#GlobalSurgery
#SurgicalTraining
@ Twitter handle
@ESCP_tweets
@SurgeryScience
@SchoolOfSurgery
@ACPGBI
@ASCRStweets
Journals
@ColorectalDis
@DCRjournal
@TechColoproctol
@BJSurgery
@AnnalsSurg
General
@RCSnews + @RCSEd + @RCPSGlasgow
@AmCollSurgeons
@RACSurgeons
@AcademicSurgery
@WomenInSurgery

7. Collaboration in Audit and Research
Can social media drive high impact studies?

8. Student Audit and Research in Surgery

10. Global ‘Crowdsourced’ Surgical Outcomes?
www.globalsurg.org

11. HIGH HDI MIDDLE HDI LOW HDI
6538 patients
(60.8%)
2889 patients
(26.9%)
1318 patients
(12.3%)
10,745 patients357 hospitals 58 countries
Primary Outcome: 24-hour postoperative mortality rate (POMR)
Secondary Outcome: 30-day postoperative mortality rate (POMR)
HDI = Human Development Index

12. HDI rank
Mortality at 24 h
Probability%(95%CI)
5
4
3
2
1
0 50 100 150
Mortality at 30 days
2
4
6
8
0 50 100 150
HDI rank
p-overall = 0.002
p-non-linear = 0.046
p-overall <0.001
p-non-linear = 0.015
Mortality is three times higher in low- compared with high-HDI
countries even when adjusted for prognostic factors
Collaboration Driven High Impact Results
GlobalSurg Collaborative. BJS 2016; 103: 971–988

13. “Coalescent connectivity is the lesson to be
learnt from this paper; the triumph that
rendered international barriers and borders
as virtual as the internet space where young
surgeons breathed life into global health”.
D. C. Winter
Editor, BJS
www.globalsurg.org

14. Global feedback in real time

15. GlobalSurg collaborators around the world!
www.globalsurg.org

16. Social Media Take-home Message:
The question is no longer why to use social media
The question is whether you can afford not to!
Thank you!
@DrEdFitzgerald