Social media have emerged as a possible new method for closing die knowledge translation window. Online Twitter-based journal clubs have increasingly been reported as a possible vehicle for knowledge translation1'2 because these technologies allow us to expand our communities of practice. In 2013, we launched a shared initiative to increase global awareness of new key emergency medicine literature: the Global Emergency Medicine Journal Club. This venture joined a social media—based educational platform committed to academic blogging and online publishing (Academic Life in Emergency Medicine [ALiEM]), with an established and successful traditional peer-reviewed print journal (Annals of Emergency Medicine)? The ALiEM-Annals partnership pairs the power, flexibility, and timeliness of an academic blog's ability to foster social media discussions with the Annals editorial team's experience guiding others through critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine. It is hoped that this will combine the blog's topicality and breadth with the strengths of traditional peer review, resulting in a new mode of communication better suited to contemporary continuous professional development.
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