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This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Social media use across the health professions has significantly expanded in recent years. Specific attention has been paid to both the value of social media use in graduate medical education with residency program twitter accounts. More recently, social media has been examined for its role in supporting the rapid expansion of information exchange and connection across digital and virtual platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the ongoing response to the pandemic, the 2020-2021 residency application cycle is anticipated to be a completely virtual interview process. Here, we draw from our collective experiences managing, maturing, and maximizing social media accounts for residency programs and GME to provide practical tips for using social media for the upcoming virtual interview season.
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Legionnaires' disease may present with a broad spectrum of illnesses and nonspecific extrapulmonary symptoms including diarrhea. To our knowledge, bowel obstruction has not been reported as a manifestation of Legionella. We present a unique case of Legionnaires' disease contributing to a small bowel obstruction.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated a change in immunization rates and medical resident knowledge following an educational intervention. Differences in immunization rates based on resident or patient characteristics were also assessed. METHODS: This pre- and post-intervention retrospective chart review targeted family medicine and internal medicine residents at the St. Vincent Joshua Max Simon Primary Care Center. A chart review focusing on vaccination rates for three adult vaccines was conducted at baseline and following an educational intervention. A survey was also administered to residents to evaluate a change in their knowledge of adult vaccine recommendations. RESULTS: Following the educational intervention, the offer, refusal, and receipt of three targeted vaccines did not demonstrate statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: Continued medical resident education is essential to improve resident knowledge of adult immunization recommendations and adult vaccination rates. However, this study demonstrated that additional strategies are necessary to achieve optimal adult vaccination rates.
