Using Storify to Curate Peer Reviewed Educational Content for Patients and Clinicians

Abstract

SESSION TITLE: Educator Breakout: Social Media and Medical Education SESSION TYPE: Original Investigation Slide PRESENTED ON: Monday, October 30, 2017 at 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM PURPOSE: More and more education is provided on-line. This movement toward free and open access medical education is increasingly used by clinicians and by patients, with little oversight by major medical organizations. Storify is a content curation platform made popular by news organizations to gather digital content from around the internet, and pull together into a cohesive timeline featuring multimedia content from social media sites, blogs, news sites—essentially any element with a unique URL. Each Storify story can also contain text, much like a blog post or user comment on a social media update, to aid in the story narrative. The “stories” are collected, organized and syndicated and can be updated and ordered in a real-time fashion. Storify has been in existence since 2010 and has gained popularity as a tool to gather stand-alone resources into a body of work which can inform, update, or tell a story. Recently, the NetWorks of CHEST have launched an initiative to curate and publish regular stories for the purpose of educating patients, caregivers, and clinicians on pulmonary, critical care, and sleep related topics. An added dimension is that unlike the plethora of non-peer reviewed open access resources, CHEST Storify stories are peer reviewed by members of the NetWork Steering Committee. In this review, we sought to characterize this initiative and the reach of these stories. METHODS: We reviewed the educational stories curated by the NetWorks and posted on Storify by CHEST between February 2016 and March 2017. We categorized these studies into three themes: critical care medicine, pulmonary, and sleep and used descriptive statistics to understand the impact of these educational stories. RESULTS: Thirty eight stories were published with a total of 19,892 views of these stories. When categorizing these topics, 25 of these were pulmonary, 9 were critical care, 3 were sleep topics, and one on a topic unrelated to pulmonary, critical care, or sleep. The critical care stories were viewed more often than the pulmonary and sleep stories, although this was not statistically significant (p=0.15). Specifically, there were a median of 538 views (25-75% IQR 394-1077 views) of the critical care stories, compared to a median of 267 views (25-75% IQR 87-587 views) of the pulmonary stories, and a median of 258 views (25-75% IQR 87-476) of the sleep stories. The median number of views of these stories was 379 (25-75% IQR 113-567 views). The highest number of views was for the critical care story on blood transfusions (n=5,647). CONCLUSIONS: Over the last year, the Storify educational initiative by the NetWorks of CHEST resulted in a large number of views and broad reach. Unfortunately, Storify does not reveal viewer demographic information, limiting conclusions about viewership characteristics. There were more pulmonary topics than sleep or critical care topics, but critical care topics may be more popular. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Storify may be a promising platform for medical education. As a social newsroom Storify can help multiple collaborators and experts in the field create real-time peer-reviewed content, and allow for easy social sharing and syndication. Understanding who is utilizing this content would be an important future direction. DISCLOSURE: The following authors have nothing to disclose: Neha Dangayach, Saroj Kandel, W. Anthony Hawkins, Kristi Bruno, Harpreet Grewal, Brandon Seay, Christopher Carroll No Product/Research Disclosure Information