In this post (and video!) I will share the highlights of a talk I gave recently discussing social media and professionalism, specifically how to protect your patients, your profession, and you. We’re all very familiar with the pitfalls of using

Published! After countless hours of work, our research on Twitter at the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Ophthalmology is now e-published online in the journal Ophthalmology (to be in print soon). For those non-ophthalmologist readers, Ophthalmology is the top clinical

Today I would like to talk for a few minutes about how you can use social media and blogging as building blocks for the medical practice and business of the future. This is a talk I originally gave in September 2015 at

Recently I was interviewed by Callan Navistky, Editor-in-Chief of the digital journal Millennial Eye for a special July-August 2015 issue dedicated to “Building Your Brand Image.” I was initially hesitant to share the “Behind-the-Scenes” of the EyeSteve brand, but ultimately decided to share some

Introduction Ever since I began residency I have been encouraging, prodding, and at times, persistently pestering department leadership of my belief that our ophthalmology department should have a dedicated Twitter feed. After months of persistence combined with good timing and

Do you remember learning about mutualistic symbiotic relationships in fifth grade biology? The zebra and the oxpecker bird, the bee and the flower, and the bacteria in the human digestive tract, wherein two distinct groups mutually benefit from the relationship

Several months ago, I was browsing my Twitter feed and came across a tweet from @MillennialEYE, encouraging millennial ophthalmologists to attend the inaugural MillennialEYE Live meeting, designed for the “future leaders in ophthalmology.” As a current ophthalmology resident, I figured what

Originally published in YOInfo, the American Academy of Ophthalmology monthly newsletter for young ophthalmologists. Social media is NOT new to today’s young ophthalmologists. You millennial generation eye doctors probably began using Facebook in college to stay in touch with old friends,

This weekend I will be giving a six-minute presentation on “Twitter” to my ophthalmology colleagues at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting in Chicago. That’s right. I will have exactly 360 seconds to encourage my colleagues to join the Twitter

You may be a medical student spending late nights in the gross anatomy lab and early mornings pre-rounding on general surgery patients, or an intern sharing bad news with the families of your patients for the first time as a

Predicting the future is a dangerous game. Just ask the Vegas gamblers, the Wall Street Bankers, and the Federal Reserve economists. Better still, ask the meteorologist who confidently forecasts sunny, blue skies but miscalculates mother nature’s scheming, leaving the sunny-weather-dependers

Welcome to the EyeSteve Tweep of the Week. In this new section of EyeSteve.com, I will give a “shout-out” to one of my new twitter follower’s (“tweeps”) from the previous week or one of my current followers whose twitter feed,