Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

I made a short 7 minute video as a quick introduction to Twitter and how you can use it to get tips and strategies for your med school rotations, internship, and residency. Just click on the video image below to get started. You will need the most up-to-date QuickTime player (free version).

OK, now that we’re in the thick of the residency application season and people are gearing up for their residency interviews, RookieDoctor.com has a Twitter-Only special. Here’s how it works…

If you’re not on Twitter, sign up… it’s free and it’s cool. You can read more about it at my first blog post about Twitter. Once you sign up, follow RookieDoc.

Then just send me a direct message through Twitter. Just type a letter “d” in the Twitter message box, followed by my user name “RookieDoc”. Then type your message and send it.

Your message should look something like this:

d RookieDoc Sign me up for the personal statement review.

If you are one of the first 5 to respond, I’ll send you a direct message notifying you of the next step (how to get your CV and/or personal statement to me, etc). All of this is free, of course, but for the first five only. Go to Twitter.com and sign up now.

At first, I was skeptical. Something inside of me said that sending only very small ‘tweets’ of information would be useless and distracting. But after hearing about a bunch of people I respect using Twitter, I looked into it a little more – a lot more actually.

I found that by reading my friends’ ‘tweets’ about what they were doing, I learned some things about them that I didn’t know before – even though we were friends. Actually, I’ve hit some of them up for advice in those areas after learning their interest in them. Twitter is like text messaging on steroids.

So, I decided to do it for RookieDoctor.com. Rather than wait until there is a collection of good links or a bunch of useful articles before sending a RookieDoc FAQ or making a new RookieDoc PDF report, I can just tweet them, as I find them.

Likewise, if you find something you think other med students, interns, or residents might find useful, you can ‘tweet’ me directly. Go check out Twitter now and look it over. If you happen to sign up, then start “following” me (RookieDoc) and send me a personal message to let me know you’re on board.

Be cautious about what you put out there though. As a physician, the world holds you to a different standard – sometimes rightfully so, sometimes not. Certainly, you should never, ever put patient information or even institution information online in any way… not a web page, not a blog, and not Twitter.

If it’s not something you would shout across a crowded room, then don’t even think of putting it out there. It will come back and bite you.

Go ahead… tweet me Rookie Doc on Twitter