New Synapse Group: Graduate Medical Education

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Working with the Office of Graduate Medical Education, we’ve created a Synapse group to help track publications that include MSK trainees as authors. Over 150 trainees have been added to the group, who thus far in 2022 collaborated on at least 309 publications at MSK. We further broke down the trainees into 12 sub-groups relating to their clinical training program, such as Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery etc., to allow for more granularity in highlighting publications by training program. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSK offers approximately 100 clinical training programs that range from residency level programs to advanced fellowship programs. “Our goal is to provide our trainees with top-notch clinical and scientific training and personalized guidance to become outstanding members of the medical community in their respective discipline.” 

If you are interested in creating a Synapse group for your department, or wish to learn more about how groups can help you track publications, please contact us.

Register Now for “A Seat for All: Communicating Health Equity and Research in a Digital World”

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Join us and learn about Health Affairs’ Health Equity initiative aimed at increasing diversity among authors, identifying new voices, and addressing biases within their publishing process. Strategies for promoting research and the impact social media plays on disseminating health equity content will also be discussed. 

In addition, there will be time for attendees to pose questions and contribute to an interactive conversation.

Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM, EST
Location – Zoom Webinar – Register Now

Speakers

Dr. Vabren Watts, Director of Health Equity, Health Affairs
Dr. Vabren Watts is the Director of Equity at Health Affairs. He is an expert in health equity and a science and health journalist who has authored more than 300 articles about the latest advancements in medicine for news media outlets including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Psychiatric News, and WebMD.

Before joining Health Affairs, Dr. Watts served as advocate for health equity for marginalized and minority populations, having served as a spokesperson for the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, and the Deputy Director in the Division of Diversity and Health Equity at the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Watts received his Doctor of Philosophy in pharmacology from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN and completed his postdoctoral training in the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Patti Sweet, Director of Digital Strategy, Health Affairs
Patti Sweet is the Direct of Digital Strategy at Health Affairs. She focuses on digital strategy and the ways in which Health Affairs can promote itself and its content in digital spaces and to diverse audiences.

She built her career working in digital marketing agencies and volunteering with service organizations and nonprofits, with half of her work based in London and the other half in the US. Patti received her bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Spanish from Michigan State University, and she holds a master’s degree from the Hult International Business School in London.

Who Does Twitter Elevate?

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Social media offers valuable, accurate medical information—if you know who to trust. Unfortunately, identifying reliable sources of information remains a challenge for even the most savvy web users.

Dr. Fumiko Chino

Dr. Fumiko Chino. Photo: Richard DeWitt.

A recent Axios article reviews the problem of information and misinformation on Twitter. In it, MSK’s Dr. Fumiko Chino describes a recent study she coauthored in JAMA Network Open. Verified accounts (the ones with those blue checkmarks) of physicians on Twitter are more likely to be from male doctors in the United States. It is unclear why some accounts receive verification while others do not.

While Twitter worked to make the verification process more transparent last year, Dr. Chino believes room for improvement remains. She concludes, “It charges me to put a fine eye in terms of who I’m elevating, who I’m retweeting.”