In radiology, social media has been used to increase patient and public awareness of the specialty, establish a professional brand, share scholarly activity, aid in professional development and recruitment, improve communication, and increase engagement during scientific meetings. The use of social media, comprising interactive information sharing and networking tools, has proliferated in radiology, with as many as 85% of radiologists utilizing social media and adoption by both private and academic practices. The internet has become an integral component of daily life, with its content broadly grouped into social media and non-social online content. This pilot study suggests that Snapchat may have a role in the digital radiologic classroom’s evolution.
Radiology residents interpreting emergency cases via Snapchat showed higher accuracy compared with using a traditional classroom screen. Performance on Snapchat was statistically, significantly better than via projector during weeks 1 and 3 (p values 0.0019 and 0.0031).Conclusion Performance was scored 0–2 (0 = complete miss, 1 = major finding, but missed the diagnosis, 2 = correct diagnosis) by two attending radiologists in consensus.ResultsAll residents performed better on Snapchat each week. All images depicted diagnoses requiring immediate communication to ordering physicians. Other students are kept in grade-level classes, or tracked into remedial courses that are tasked with catching students up to academic baselines.PurposeTo evaluate Snapchat, an image-based social media platform, as a tool for emergency radiologic didactics comparing image interpretation on mobile devices with conventional analysis on a classroom screen.Materials and methodsSeven radiology residents (4 juniors, 3 seniors 4 males, 3 females 28.4 years old, ± 1.7 years) were shown 5 emergent radiologic cases using Snapchat and 5 cases of similar content and duration on a classroom projector over 4 weeks. These programs are tasked with challenging presumably smart students with acceleration and extra enrichment activities.
The minority gap in enrollment at elite academic public schools is a problem across America.īut more troubling, and often less discussed, is the modern-day form of segregation that occurs within the same school through academic tracking, which selects certain students for gifted and talented education (GATE) programs. The fact that not even 1 percent of the incoming freshman class identifies as black at New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High School made national headlines last month. The segregation of America’s public schools is a perpetual news maker.
The public focuses its attention on divides between schools, while tracking has created separate and unequal education systems within single schools. Sociology Professor Whitney Pirtle highlights modern-day segregation within schools through academic tracking.
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