Britt DK Gratreak 🖖 @Britt@qoto.org

I think I will be switching over to #MedMastodon as soon as I figure out how. 🧐

'Thank You' cards are my favorite thing ever. They sustain me. I'm so glad to have helped someone on their path. This card filled me up with warm fuzzies after a long day. 🥺💖 I've come to collect 'Thank You's-- one day I aspire to have a whole wall of them in my future office!

I'm so proud of this person!!!!

#Academia #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Neuro #Neuroscience #MedMastodon #MedicalEducation #UndergraduateResearch #Congratulations

Tomorrow morning at 10:30am PST, I will be speaking at the fourth annual Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine at a session titled 'Navigating Disability Identity and Activism in Medical Social Media Communities'. Please share if you can!

I have certainly gained a lot (and lost some) due to my outspokenness and honesty on social media as a disabled student-- but it's been a net gain, for sure! Come hear me talk about it!

I will be joined by fantastic co-panelists:
- Andrea Dalzell MSN-ED, RN
- Chase Anderson, MD, MS
- Anna Valdez, PhD, RN, FAADN, FAEN

And wonderful moderator Zoey Martin-Lockhart, MA!

Please don't miss it! I have been looking forward to this for a long, long time. We have nearly 1000 people registered and I would LOVE to see that number hit 1000!

Register here: https://med.stanford.edu/smadie/events/4th-annual-disability-conference.html

This photo is from my presentation at Research Day 2023 at the University of Arizona last month. :)

#Academic #Disability #MedMastodon #Disabled #Conference

Spent a wonderful afternoon outside with fellow medical students at UACOM-T making harm reduction kits with Sonoran Prevention Works through the Harm Reduction and Addiction Medicine (HRAM) student interest group. 💖 I love seeing student-driven initiatives in action to benefit our communities!!! 🥰 #HarmReduction #MedMastodon

It's #FollowFriday, so let's share a thing that we are proud of doing this year!

For myself: I'm proud that I attended #SfN22 and presented my early research in-person. I've wanted to go to Society for Neuroscience since I was an undergraduate but never had the opportunity since I worked all through college to stay afloat.

I just joined my lab earlier this year and still managed to have something to talk about and contribute to science. I also had a new chronic illness kick in late this summer, so navigating the extra fatigue, pain, and symptoms was something I was unsure about. Wrapping IcyHot around my legs, taking meds, resting and accepting my physical limits without collapsing or falling into posterboards was a major plus. There is so much more I wanted to see, but I hope next year I will be able to catch up and make up the difference.

It helps tremendously to have a lab that always has your back!

What are you proud of this year, #Academic / #Science mastodon?

#NeuroscienceMigration #Neuroscience #TwitterMigration #RIPTwitter #MedMastodon

#MedMastodon and #MedEd folks, I need your help: What journal do you see a dual research/advocacy paper like the one below being published?

I have a bunch of medical students and mentors who quantified (lack of) #LGBTQIA representation in preclerkship medical education curricula and also 3 ongoing years of IRB-approved incoming student surveys about gender identity, sexual orientation, attitudes, career choices, and knowledge about LGBTQIA+ health topics. Along with recorded advocacy efforts and a whole booklet of inclusion suggestions made to block directors.

The overall intent of this paper is to make it easier for other students to follow and repeat at their institutions and track over time how increased inclusion may alter student knowledge after they finish preclerkship and move on to clinical years.

Where should this live? Would it be better of as 2 papers (student surveys separate from curriculum)?