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Today’s Faculty Factory Podcast episode is about the professional use of social media with guest Sapna Kudchadkar, MD, PhD. We cover the habits, hacks, and hints for how to get the most out of utilizing social media as a professional tool for faculty in today’s show.
Dr. Kudchadkar serves as Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She also serves as Associate Vice Chair for Research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.
On Twitter, where her handle is @SapnaKmd, she currently has more than 12,000 followers. Today’s interview opens with Dr. Kudchadkar discussing why and how she started using Twitter as a professional tool.
We also chat about the genesis of an effective hashtag.
As we discussed on today’s show, it’s not uncommon for us to work in bubbles as academic and medical professionals. Twitter has helped break these silos and bring professional communities closer together.
If you want to get started on Twitter, but you are not sure where to start, Dr. Kudchadkar has some advice for you. It’s fairly simple to start a profile and follow some thought leaders in your field.
“Being a lurker is not a bad thing on Twitter,” Dr. Kudchadkar told us.
There’s a lot of great things about the professional use of social media, but there is the good, the bad, and the ugly, as Dr. Kudchadkar warned us.
Make sure to use the podcast player above to listen to this very insightful interview.