Tweetorials: Digital scholarship deserving of inclusion in promotion portfolios

Abstract

Since their first appearance in 2018, tweetorials have emerged as a popular tool for medical education. Despite some calls for their inclusion in educational and promotion portfolios, questions have been raised about the appropriateness of these forms of digital scholarship. Also unclear is how a promotion committee might identify educational tweetorials most deserving of inclusion. We argue that educational tweetorials do warrant consideration as digital scholarship and offer a means of evaluation that promotion committees might use when assessing an individual tweetorial.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.

Notes on contributors

Anthony C. Breu

Anthony C. Breu, M.D., Medical Service, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115.

Avraham Z. Cooper

Avraham Z. Cooper, M.D., Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, 43210; The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, 43210.