Professional society conferences provide an important mechanism for radiologists to
experience the latest advances in the field by attending an array of scientific and
educational talks over the course of the meeting. However, radiologists may value
the “hallway” conversations, as well as other networking and collaboration opportunities
in between formal scheduled events, more than the events themselves (
1
,
2
). Such dialogs that arise informally among attendees encourage an open exchange of
ideas, focused on those ideas that individuals find of greatest personal relevance
and without being bound by the relatively fixed content of prearranged sessions (
3
). As potential educational platforms that encourage learner participation and flexibility
of content (such as wikis, blogs, and crowdsourced discourse) become increasingly
prevalent, conference attendees may likewise experience an increasing desire, if not
expectation, to be able to tailor meeting content to reflect that which is considered
to be most pertinent to one's own educational interests (
4
). Indeed, a recent study reported a marked increase in the use of the microblogging
network Twitter at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting between
two consecutive years (
5
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: November 02, 2015
Accepted:
October 3,
2015
Received in revised form:
August 11,
2015
Received:
August 11,
2015
Footnotes
Disclosures: None.
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© 2016 The Association of University Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
