TY - JOUR
T1 - Picking Up the Slack
T2 - Collaboration Tools to Build Community and Increase Productivity in Nephrology
AU - Lin, Jennie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - Summary: With a growing need to recruit the future nephrology workforce, medical educators and members of the nephrology community are turning to innovative approaches to improve communication and stimulate dialogue in the field. One feasible strategy is the use of electronic collaboration tools such as Slack (Slack Technologies, San Francisco, CA), which facilitates real-time conversational communication in a private or semiprivate virtual workspace. The potential uses of Slack for nephrology education, research collaboration, and community building are outlined in this overview.
AB - Summary: With a growing need to recruit the future nephrology workforce, medical educators and members of the nephrology community are turning to innovative approaches to improve communication and stimulate dialogue in the field. One feasible strategy is the use of electronic collaboration tools such as Slack (Slack Technologies, San Francisco, CA), which facilitates real-time conversational communication in a private or semiprivate virtual workspace. The potential uses of Slack for nephrology education, research collaboration, and community building are outlined in this overview.
KW - Slack
KW - community
KW - fellowship recruitment
KW - workforce
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U2 - 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2020.04.009
DO - 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2020.04.009
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32560779
AN - SCOPUS:85084733682
SN - 0270-9295
VL - 40
SP - 298
EP - 302
JO - Seminars in nephrology
JF - Seminars in nephrology
IS - 3
ER -