I have tons of lectures that I've made for #medstudents and #residents, but I wanted to gamify them to make them more engaging. So I built a free gamification feature on beta.mededassessments.com. Upload a lecture, and it generates a team comp, jeopardy, or live quiz game #MedEd #MedSky #EMIMCC

Howdy #MedEd friends and enemies, our MedEd game research group/community of practice is planning our first conference. If you are into that sort of thing let me know what you want to see and get notified when details are up. ohsu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A current diagram of the multibillion dollar scientific publishing industry. #research #medsky #emimcc

How do we improve the quality of feedback faculty receive? A resident-led feedback model led to: • 📈 Higher-quality narrative feedback • ✅ 100% eval completion • 🧠 More specific, actionable insights www.rjmedicine.org/publications... #MedEd #GME #medsky

Scientists sued the six biggest for-profit academic publishers, alleging they colluded to enforce “publish-or-perish,” single-submission rules, unpaid peer review, and limits on sharing research. The results just came in…

AI in research is going really well

Are benzo drips going to make a comeback in the ICU?? #EMIMCC #ICU

How to fix scientific publishing: 1. Build GitHub for manuscript writing 2. Set up preprints and publishing as pull requests ⭐️Versioning/contributor tracking mitigate fraud ⭐️Pull requests mitigate administrative costs ⭐️Everything is open ⭐️The freemium model improves access #research #meded #medsky

I often get asked by residents and medical students where they can publish their case reports. So I built a tool where you can query over 1000 medical journals that publish CRs by cost, MEDLINE status, time to publication, specialty, etc. #meded #research #medsky www.rjmedicine.org/journal-finder

RJIM just completed its first paid peer review. That’s right, we just sent a peer reviewer real money. Because 👏🏼 that’s 👏🏼 how 👏🏼 it 👏🏼 should 👏🏼 work #research #medsky

The top six commercial publishers are currently being sued for anti-trust violations (Uddin v. Elsevier, B.V., 1:24-cv-06409). They publish the majority of articles on PubMed. This year, we will find out the verdict. If they lose, this would have DRAMATIC effects on #research

Working on a feature that I think every journal should have: 👉You drag and drop your manuscript 👉It fills in the sections 👉It formats all your references How much time do researchers waste formatting manuscripts? An estimated $230 MILLION in work hours yearly #research #medsky #meded

This is the last 150 years of PubMed publications by major Publishing organizations. It started with small University and Nonprofit presses, now becoming an absolute domination by commercial publishers #research #medsky

#vibecoding for statistics🤌. Not only did the results match up to mine, but it created a beautiful dashboard to present them. #MedEd

I took our #POCUS curriculum powerpoints and textbook chapters and vibe-coded it into a more engaging and trackable Duolingo-like platform. It's 100% free (and always will be) if you want to check it out (pocus-pathway.replit.app). This ability to transform #meded content quickly is amazing

I was drawn to Twitter because of #POCUS and seeing experts’ images and tweetorials. It inspired the research question: Does using Twitter lead to measurable improvements in #POCUS image interpretation. We conducted a randomized trial to see, and the results were surprising… #MedEd #medsky

The interest in rjmedicine.org has been validating. Researchers are ready for a non-profit, truly open publishing ecosystem. To keep up with growth, we're now using NextJS. We'll be able to build AI integration and automation. If you're interested in crafting the ideal publishing experience, join us

🔥Fresh blog🔥 Hot take on RSI trial of ketamine vs etomidate RSI & EvK trials both show *more* BP instability with ketamine *but* lower mortality with ketamine 🤔 Cause of BP drops with ketamine? - Less pressor pre-intubation? - Ketamine provides analgesia (eliminating pain-as-a-pressor)? ... #1/2

Imagine setting up a randomized study of Twitter for education running from Nov2021 to June2023 and then in 2022..... link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MedEd

Great paper on the absurd #research inflation on residency apps. 37 research works ON AVERAGE for NSG. The authors argue that we need more: 1️⃣Granularity and clarity on ERAS 2️⃣Data available from NRMP 3️⃣Guidance from PDs #meded #Match2026 jgme.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

Over 20,000 researchers have signed a petition to boycott Elsevier for rising publication costs. But you've probably never heard of it... A thread on The Cost of Knowledge Boycott, what it is, whether it worked, and an alternative #research #medsky #meded

Excellent article on the explosion of commercial research publishing. “The current system is a choice. It prioritizes the stock portfolios of a few multinational corporations over the integrity of the scientific record.” #medsky #research www.zmescience.com/science/news...

I’m usually not one to throw shade at choosing mortality for an #ICU primary outcome… but for arterial lines? Did people think they saved lives? And this is in NEJM? #EMIMCC #criticalcare #MedSky

IRBs today: “You want to teach students and publish it? Write 20 pages about ensuring their data privacy and we’ll think about it” IRBs 40 yrs ago: “You want to make your students inhale toxic gas just to see what happens? Okay, just make it a little bit of toxic gas” #research #meded

In <12 hours of work, I transformed our #POCUS curriculum into an async pathway with duolingo-like features and instructor dashboards. Vibe-coding may simultaneously be the most powerful #meded tool today BUT the easiest way to get into legal trouble. Here's how to harness it🧵

Outstanding work that shows immense scientific fraud. “For instance, of the 79 papers that one editor had handled at PLOS ONE, 49 have been retracted” HOW are journals not catching this?! #research #academicSky #MedSky www.science.org/content/arti...

We analyzed every PubMed publication from 2012-2022 attributed to a #medicalstudent. They increased by 1,329%! But did quality grow too? A thread on publication pressure, perspective pieces, and publication fees #MedEd www.rjmedicine.org/publications...

RJIM launched its first publications. The submissions are rolling in and we need peer reviewers if you can sign up! www.rjmedicine.org/instructions... We’re a 501c3 nonprofit journal where research is shared - not sold. #research #MedSky bsky.app/profile/rjme...

For my fellow #meded enthusiasts who do surveys and assessments, I built a one-stop website to do it all: Build assessments Get responses Analyze psychometrics Calculate statistical differences Host gamified assessments And more... Let me show you the FREE MedEdAssessments.com #MedSky #EMIMCC

mededassessments.com now has two games: Jeopardy and the Conference Cup. The Conference Cup is up to four teams. A host runs the board with 3 questions to choose from. Teams take turns and use QR codes to access game cards for fun and randomness. Free to create, copy, or share! #meded #MedSky

The first RJIM articles are coming out this fall! The submissions are coming in but we need more peer reviewers. Considering signing up, we have paid peer review opportunities open. #meded #research #MedSky www.rjmedicine.org/instructions...

🎯🎯🎯🎯 “…the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated that the work they support must be published in non-profit journals” #research #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

For my fellow #meded enthusiasts who do surveys and assessments, I built a one-stop website to do it all: Build assessments Get responses Analyze psychometrics Calculate statistical differences Host gamified assessments And more... Let me show you the FREE MedEdAssessments.com #MedSky #EMIMCC

When you’re reviewing an article and see “—“ all over the place #research #peerreview

I enjoy knocking the physical exam as much as the next person. But I’ve seen multiple patients with an obliterated hemithorax or severe ILD that took way too long to be diagnosed… I think the pendulum has swung too far

Peer reviewers donate over $1.5 billion annually in labor. Mostly to 5 multibillion-dollar publishers that have profit margins larger than Google. Today, we have the tech to free research from profiteering #AcademicSky #MedSky #research #EMIMCC kevinmd.com/2025/04/why-...

You can buy research article co-authorship for $1,800. We’re going to see more and more of this if we let the #residency research arms race continue… #MedTwitter #medschool #AcademicTwitter

#Academia has a lot to learn from tech. I’m able to use 80,000 lines of free open-source code on the MIT license. But it’s $104 to read the one research article I need

A controversial congressional probe is looking into antitrust practices by the Match. I mean, the Match is basically the definition of a trust. But do the pros outweigh the cons? #MatchDay #Match2025 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Research published by for-profit companies has nearly tripled, causing ⬆️ APCs and 💰 paywalls We started a nonprofit journal where you can publish and review for charity, or even get paid to peer review. Because research should be shared—not sold. RJmedicine.org #medSky #research #academicSky

#meded hits different in 2025. MS1s/2s are actively chatting with chatGPT while I teach. It feels even more important to bring clinical experiences and bedside knowledge, rather than encyclopedic knowledge. The role of clinician-educators is shifting

Google forms ain’t enough for me, so I’m making a site to create, share, distribute, and analyze my assessments/surveys with statistical analyses. I’ll make it public and free if any fellow #meded enthusiasts are interested. #medSky #medicine

If we continue to value impact factors over equitable and rational publishing, we will keep funding an oligopoly of profiteering publishers. But we don’t have to. Publish and peer review for charity! 👇 #research #academicSky #internalmedicine #meded www.rjmedicine.org/publications...

Wow ChatGPT is almost as enthusiastic about assessment analysis as I am #meded

“Imagine if a book publisher demanded that authors write books for free and, instead of employing in-house editors, relied on other authors to edit those books, also for free. And not only that…. #academicSky #research www.wired.com/story/inside...

The first article in RJIM! For-profit publishers are increasingly dominating scientific publications. $$APCs are growing and your work is paywalled, so they can make profit margins larger than Google’s. So 2 dozen researchers and I created RJIM… #medSky #EMIMCC www.rjmedicine.org/publications...

It feels like this is the state of the world right now #AI #medSky

RJIM is now live and open for submissions! #MedSky #internalmedicine

A fantastic study on the effectiveness of paid peer review. But I think scientists are mostly good people, who will volunteer to further science regardless of the incentive. And rather we should ask whether it’s ethical to allow for-profit companies to exploit that journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/f...

The irony of an article discussing the unpaid labor of scientists, published by a $4bn corporation reliant on the unpaid labor of scientists. Meanwhile RJmedicine.org, a journal in which we offer $ honoraria to authors and reviewers, opened for submissions today #academicSky #medSky #research