A final wrap of the news from #RANZCOG18 – with tweets, snaps and selfies

Melissa Sweet
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Women's health, Healthcare, Australian Medical Association, #RANZCOG18

Below is our final report from the recent Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) conference in Adelaide.

It includes a selection of tweets from presentations, posters and social events, and a wide-ranging interview between Amy Coopes and former AMA president Dr Michael Gannon.

Gannon stresses the importance of generalism in medical training, so that specialist obstetricians and gynaecologists are equipped to work in rural and outer metropolitan areas and other areas of needs. He raises concerns about some of unintended outcomes from responses to the pelvic mesh disaster, and also shares personal insights into the heavy demands on AMA presidents.

Tweet reports

Watch the interview with Dr Michael Gannon

Snaps and selfies

Twitter analytics

Warm thanks to Amy Coopes for covering #RANZCOG18 for @WePublicHealth and the Croakey Conference News Service, and to all conference tweeps. Read the Twitter transcript here. The analytics below are from Symplur, and for the period of Croakey’s coverage: 10-30 September 2018. They show more than 20 million Twitter impressions for the conference hashtag over this period, with 404 participants in the Twitter stream.

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A final wrap of the news from #RANZCOG18 – with tweets, snaps and selfies

Tweet reports

Watch the interview with Dr Michael Gannon

Snaps and selfies

Twitter analytics

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