#WhyID: Crowdsourcing the Top Reasons to Choose Infectious Diseases in the Age of Twitter

James B Cutrell

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz403

#WhyID: Crowdsourcing the Top Reasons to Choose Infectious Diseases in the Age of Twitter

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Oct 9;6(10):ofz403. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz403. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Author

James B Cutrell^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
² Medical Service, Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Abstract

Despite lagging compensation and other challenges for the ID specialty, many compelling reasons still exist for why trainees should strongly consider ID as a specialty. Using Twitter as a crowdsourcing tool, the author shares his top 10 reasons for #WhyID.

Keywords: fellowship; Twitter; infectious diseases; medical education.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019.

Publication types

Editorial