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Embracing the (r)evolution of social media and digital scholarship in pediatric nephrology education

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Free Open-Access Medical Education (FOAMed) has transformed medical education in the past decade by complementing and substituting for traditional medical education when needed. The attractiveness of FOAMed resources is due to their inexpensive nature, wide availability, and user ability to access on demand across a variety of devices, making it easy to create, share, and participate. The subject of nephrology is complex, fascinating, and challenging. Traditional didactic lectures can be passive and ineffective in uncovering these difficult concepts and may need frequent revisions. Active teaching methods like flipped classrooms have shown some benefits, and these benefits can only be multifold with current social media tools. Social media will inspire the involvement of students and allow them to create and share educational content in a “trendy way,” encouraging the participation of their peers and thus building an educational environment more conducive to them while promoting revision and retainment. FOAMed also promotes asynchronous learning, spaced learning, microlearning, and multimodal presentation with a meaningful variation. This article discusses the evolution of digital education, social media platforms, tools for creating and developing FOAMed resources, and digital scholarship.

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We sincerely thank Roshan P. George, Nephrology Social Media Collective (NSMC), NephJC, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN), Kidney International Reports, and the International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) for their support.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Renal Division, Houston, TX, USA

    Shweta S. Shah

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Emily Zangla

  3. Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Square Hospitals Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Md. Abdul Qader

  4. Department of Nephrology, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Swasti Chaturvedi

  5. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, 2100 W. Clinch Ave, Suite 310 (MOB), Knoxville, TN, 37916, USA

    Sai Sudha Mannemuddhu

  6. Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Sai Sudha Mannemuddhu

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Shah, S.S., Zangla, E., Qader, M.A. et al. Embracing the (r)evolution of social media and digital scholarship in pediatric nephrology education. Pediatr Nephrol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-023-06251-y

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