RadOnc's Best Educational Influencer
Krish Jethwa, hands down, is the best virtual educator in radonc.
A bonus post - I wanted to take a moment to honor a colleague of mine, who just received an aware from ACRO.
I have had the opportunity to speak with and meet Dr. Krish Jethwa. He is a radiation oncologist at Mayo Clinic and specializes in tumors of the GI tract. He is also my friend and I had the pleasure of meeting his beautiful family. We have much in common, including a partner that is the CEO of our lives. Krish has the elite ability to distill clinical rationale, indications and treatments into their most essential elements. I find myself able to better understand concepts after reading his tweets. ACRO gave him their “Social Media Influencer” Award, but I’d like to take it one step further. He is the best radonc teacher on the internet. I no longer have an active account on X, but I will occasionally search for him and see what he has recently had to say. Not only does he have great tweetorials, but he highlights interesting studies, points out other excellent educational tweets / tweetorials and is a genuine and sincere ‘hype man’ for all thing GI oncology.
I wanted to highlight a few of his Tweetorials. If you are on X, do follow him at @KrishanJethwa. If you are not, then just make a dummy account so you can search for and read his threads time to time. Click on the picture to go to the tweet.
1. Comprehensive review of rectal cancer
2. Esophageal cancer in 5 minutes
3. A brilliant flow chart on multi-disciplinary management of rectal cancer
4. A great analysis of ESOPEC study
5. Concise summary of RTOG 0848 (adjuvant treatment of pancreatic cancer)
6. A video version of his rectal cancer summary, if you want to see this handsome devil speak.
7. Pancreatic cancer patterns of recurrence
This is just a sampling, as I barely went through a year of his tweets. Do follow him. If he is hosting a virtual lecture or speaking at a conference, I strongly recommend attending. You will be much smarter than you were before you learned from him.
Congratulations, Krish. I cannot imagine how much you will accomplish in your career. You have the ability to touch thousands of patients by teaching us all - please keep up your ‘exponential medicine’.
Love you all,
Sim