Introducing the Pediatric Urology Journal Club on Twitter

摘要

The Journal of Pediatric Urology is excited to announce the Pediatric Urology Journal Club (PUJC). Beginning February 2017, JPU will sponsor monthly discussions on Twitter pertaining to peer-reviewed research articles on topics in pediatric urology. The journal club is the first of its kind in pediatric urology and one of the first in academic medicine. With PUJC, we aim to fuse the ubiquitous nature of social media, portability of open access literature, and diversity of international perspectives to drive a perpetually up-to-date educational platform to discuss literature and issues in our field. The overall concept is similar to those journal clubs at individual institutions across the world but with global participation and an online setting. PUJC will also provide a forum for international research collaboration. Twitter (twitter.com) is a free microblogging application in which users (designated with an @ symbol) communicate in 140-character messages (tweets). Messages are publicly viewable on the internet. Twitter catalogues messages using hashtags (designated with a # symbol) for easy browsing and asynchronous communication. Twitter's emphasis on economy of words and user-friendly interfaces for smartphones, tablets, and computers make it an ideal tool to discuss a growing body of medical literature. Australian urologist Henry Woo started the world's first Twitter-based journal club in medicine [[1]Thangasamy I.A. Leveridge M. Davies B.J. Finelli A. Stork B. Woo H.H. International urology journal club via Twitter: 12-month experience.Eur Urol. 2014; 66: 112-117Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (118) Google Scholar]. Urologists have been at the forefront of adopting Twitter for academic purposes [2Matta R. Doiron C. Leveridge M.J. The dramatic increase in social media in urology.J Urol. 2014; 192: 494-498Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (84) Google Scholar, 3Wilkinson S.E. Basto M.Y. Perovic G. Lawrentschuk N. Murphy D.G. The social media revolution is changing the conference experience: analytics and trends from eight international meetings.BJU Int. 2015; 115: 839-846Crossref PubMed Scopus (139) Google Scholar, 4Chung A. Woo H. Twitter in urology and other surgical specialities at global conferences.ANZ J Surg. 2016; 86: 224-227Crossref PubMed Scopus (46) Google Scholar]. PUJC (@pedurojc) will moderate discussions on one featured peer-review journal article each month beginning the last Sunday at 5 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) minus 5 hours (10 pm accounting for Daylight Savings). Discussion will last 48 hours, permitting seamless commentary across time zones. Using the hashtag #pedurojc, anyone with an internet account can view the discussion on Twitter, and anyone with a registered Twitter account can participate. Discussion will conclude at 5 pm EST (10 pm UTC) the following Tuesday. Featured articles will be announced in JPU and on Twitter one month prior to the discussion periods. Articles featured from JPU will be made open access before and during discussion to foster broad participation. JPU will invite authors of all featured articles to enrich discourse and answer questions. After each PUJC discussion period, JPU will publish editorial summaries highlighting key topics of conversation. The first PUJC will begin February 26, 2017 at 5 pm EST (10 pm UTC) and conclude February 28, 2017 at 5 pm EST (10 pm UTC). The discussion will feature Michael P. Kurtz and colleagues' recent paper reporting robotic versus open pediatric ureteral reimplantation costs and complications through a nationwide sample [[5]Kurtz M.P. Leow J.J. Varda B.K. et al.Robotic versus open pediatric ureteral reimplantation: costs and complications from a nationwide sample.J Pediatric Urol. 2016; 12: 408.e1-408.e6Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (35) Google Scholar]. The article, which should elicit diverse international commentary for engaging discussion, is available open