VIDEO: Twitter helps physicians keep up with cutting-edge medical knowledge
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In this video exclusive, Elliot B. Tapper, MD, from the University of Michigan, gave advice to incoming hepatologists looking to become disruptive innovators within the field.
Tapper won the Rising Disruptive Innovator award, one of several Disruptive Innovator awards given by Healio Gastroenterology to physicians pushing the status quo toward the betterment of gastroenterology and liver diseases. Tapper won for his boundary pushing work in hepatology.
According to Tapper, it is critical for hepatologists to befriend those making a difference within the field to learn about cutting edge methods. He said physicians need to be plugged in to Twitter, which is one of the best ways for physicians to find out what literature is being published and what is being discussed about hepatology.
Physicians can “disrupt the status quo” by taking ideas from other fields of medicine and applying them to their own, Tapper said.
“To get new [ideas] the best way is to go outside of your silo and the best place I have been exposed to that is on Twitter,” he said. “Doing your best to follow the work of people in cardiology, nephrology and endocrinology. The only ways to do that in a quick, reliable way is through social media.”
Tapper said some ways to disrupt the status quo include hard work, take as many chances as possible and be surrounded by like-minded individuals.
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