Building Community: BMERG is on Twitter

You can now follow Bristol Medical Education Research Group on Twitter!

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Whilst there are of course many different social media platforms that offer ways of collaborating and learning, you will find on twitter most of the big medical education associations and publishers, along with many educators and researchers who share practice ideas through their content. So for now at least, twitter remains a great platform for connecting with the rest of the Medical Education community.

BMERG will also be regularly sharing news and events from Bristol through its new twitter account, as well as highlighting the work of other colleagues from around the world with ideas on best practice in Medical Education. Follow us at @BristolUniBMERG

Not sure who to follow?

If you are new to twitter, here is a list of a few great medical education feeds to get you started:

  1. Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals, Bristol @TLHPBristol
  2. Incubator for Clinical Education Research @ClinEdResearch
  3. Association for the Study of Medical Education @asmeofficial
  4. Developing Medical Educators Group (DMEG) @DevMedEd
  5. The International Network for Health Workforce Education @INHWE_Network
  6. The Academy of Medical Educators @MedicalEducator
  7. International Association For Health Professions Education @AMEE_community
  8. International Association of Medical Science Educators @iamse

Which other great medical educators, researchers, associations and organisations would you add to the list? Add your ideas in the comments below.

BMERG News: BMERG goes live on the Bristol Medical School Webpage

As part of the work of the new BMERG group, one of our missions is to maximise the visibility of the work of researchers and innovators in Medical Education here at the University of Bristol Medical School.

Part of this was the creation of this blog – we are glad you’re here and don’t forget to click subscribe to get regular updates and news if you haven’t done already! We also wanted to give medical education research a space on the University webpages alongside our highly successful and established clinical research institutes.

The BMERG webpage is now live on the Bristol Medical School webpage under the research tab. From here you can directly access links to the BMERG blog, the events pages and find out about our mission and objectives. You will also find links to the profiles and research of individuals undertaking medical education work and research here at Bristol (via the University research information PURE system).

We are very grateful to Mike Cameron, an independent digital education consultant, and Clare Tremlett and her team from the Senior Executive team at Bristol Medical School for supporting the BMERG team to launch the new page on the Bristol Medical School Website.

Take a look at: www.bristol.ac.uk/medical-school/research/medical-education-research/