“Tweet”-Format Writing Is an Effective Tool for Medical Student ReflectionDressler, J. A., Ryder, B. A., Connolly, M., Blais, M. D., Miner, T. J., & Harrington, D. T. (2018). “Tweet”-format writing is an effective tool for medical student reflection. Journal of Surgical Education, 75(5), 1206-1210
Main Idea: Unique idea for reflection assignments.
This original report comes from the field of medical education. It presents a unique style of writing assignment which encourages students to reflect on the class material in a concise and novel way. The “tweet”-format assignment was created to appeal to the current generation of students who may be more comfortable interacting with course materials using the limited-character format of popular social media platform, Twitter.