Documenting Social Media Engagement as Scholarship: A New Model for Assessing Academic Accomplishment for the Health Professions (Preprint)

• DOI: 10.2196/preprints.25070
• Publication Date: 2020-12-02T14:49:41Z
• Authors: Kimberly D Acquaviva; Josh Mugele; Natasha Abadilla; Tyler Adamson; Samantha L Bernstein; Rakhee K Bhayani; Annina Elisabeth ...; Darcy Burbage; Christopher L Car...; Samantha P Davis; Natasha Dhawan; Kim English; Jennifer T Grier; Mary K Gurney; Emily S Hahn; Heather Haq; Brendan Huang; Shikha Jain; Jin Jun; Wesley T Kerr; Timothy Keyes; Amelia R Kirby; Marion Leary; Mollie Marr; Ajay Major; Jason V Meisel; Erika A Petersen; Barak Raguan; Allison Rhodes; Deborah D Rupert; Nadia A Sam-Agudu; Naledi Saul; Jarna R Shah; Lisa Kennedy Sheldon; Christian T Sinclair; Kerry Spencer; Natalie H Strand; Carl G Streed Jr; Avery M Trudell
• Keywords: Mentorship; Promotion (chess); Scholarly Communication; Altmetrics

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> The traditional model of promotion and tenure in the health professions relies heavily on formal scholarship through teaching, research, service. Institutions consider how much weight to give activities each these areas determine a threshold for advancement. With emergence social media, scholars can engage wider audiences creative ways have broader impact. Conventional metrics like h-index do not account media Social engagement is poorly represented most curricula vitae (CV) therefore undervalued reviews. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> objective was develop crowdsourced guidelines documenting scholarship. These aimed provide structure scholar’s general impact as well methods individual contributions exemplifying innovation, education, mentorship, advocacy, dissemination. <title>METHODS</title> To create unifying guidelines, we created process that capitalized strengths generated case example successful use medium academic collaboration. primary author draft then sought input from users Twitter via publicly accessible Google Document. There no limitation who could work done democratic, collaborative fashion. Contributors edited over period 1 week (September 12-18, 2020). secondary authors revised make it more concise. manuscript were distributed contributors edits adopted by group. All given opportunity serve coauthors publication told upfront authorship would depend whether they able document which met 4 International Committee Medical Journal Editors criteria. <title>RESULTS</title> We developed 2 sets guidelines: Guidelines Listing Media Scholarship Under Public (in Research/Scholarship Section CV) Research, Teaching, Service Sections CV. choose set fits their existing CV format. <title>CONCLUSIONS</title> uniformity, better represent full scope work. are intended dictate institutions should weigh within cases. Instead, providing an initial hope with common format language