New Idea: Use Twitter for Daily Q&A for Board Preparation

During our meeting at the 2008 ACAAI conference, Tao Le shared that The First Aid team was planning to use Twitter for daily Q&A sessions. They just launched them yesterday:

Once we post the answer, feel free to discuss the concept by posting your tweets here. Happy studying! P.S.- It starts on Monday. 12:14 AM Nov 16th from web
Questions will be posted at 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (PST). The answers will be posted 30 minutes after we post the questions. 12:13 AM Nov 16th from web
Hello and welcome to the first ever attempt at USMLE Step 1 board prep through Twitter. 12:13 AM Nov 16th from web

firstaidteam True or False: A case-control study is a type of observational study. about 12 hours ago from web

firstaidteam Answer: True about 12 hours ago from web

We can use the same approach for preparation for the American Board of Allergy and Immunology (ABAI):

	AllergyNotes Started the hash tag #Allergy for allergy education and fellowship related posts. less than 5 seconds ago from web
	AllergyNotes #Allergy May be we should have a similar model to @firstaidteam Q&A for allergy board preparation (ABAI)... less than 5 seconds ago from web
	AllergyNotes Don't forget to subscribe to @firstaidteam -- they launched their daily Q&A tweets less than 5 seconds ago from web