Table 2.

Survey of categorical medicine residents regarding Twitter use and its roles in advancing the educational mission (n=61).

Survey item			n (%)
Reported having personal Twitter account (number of respondents)			33 (54)
Twitter feed's contribution to educational mission
	Role of Twitter (number in agreement)
		Helps residents remember teaching points from the morning report	39 (64)
		Captures the major teaching points from the morning report	43 (70)
		Makes residents feel less removed from the residency program during external rotations (off-campus hospital, emergency ward, etc)	38 (62)
		Enhances overall education in residency	42 (69)
	Category of tweets (number that rated tweets as informative)
		Morning report	51 (84)
		General medical information	53 (87)
		Grand rounds	44 (72)
		Residents' accomplishments, social events, and other institution-specific information	49 (80)