Gender interactions on Twitter and medical education: how is nephrology doing?

Hector M Madariaga; Christine B Sieberg; Xavier Vela; Katherine Kwon; Edgar V Lerma; Tejas Desai

doi:10.1093/ndt/gfab058

Gender interactions on Twitter and medical education: how is nephrology doing?

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2022 Apr 25;37(5):923-927. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfab058.

Authors

Hector M Madariaga¹, Christine B Sieberg^{2

3

4}, Xavier Vela⁵, Katherine Kwon⁶, Edgar V Lerma⁷, Tejas Desai⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Brockton, MA, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Biobehavioral Pediatric Pain Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Center for Pain and the Brain, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Lake Michigan Nephrology, Saint Joseph, MI, USA.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁸ NOD Analytics, Charlotte, NC, USA.

PMID: 33677566
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfab058

Abstract

Gender inequities negatively impact productivity and career advancement for women. Social media platforms like Twitter can be used to achieve greater parity and address underrepresentation by providing a medium for education, research and mentorship, however, it is unknown how it may contribute to gender inequity. Our aim was to examine gender interactions during a nephrology medical conference.

Keywords: Twitter; academic medicine; gender; gender inequality; gender interactions; social media.

MeSH terms

Education, Medical*
Female
Humans
Nephrology*
Social Media*