The below are some random thoughts extracted from my talk at AfCEM 2018 Conference:
Appropriateness:
- Don’t forget your audience is worldwide not all in the same healthcare context as you – think about your influence.
- Sometimes flippant comments/assumptions are made by authors that when read by a clinician from low resource context, renders them despondent & confused, instead of motivated & inspired.
- Ask LMIC clinicians to be involved to peer review posts. May have surprising feedback/suggestions!
- For every post/material the author should cognitively force themselves by asking “how does this apply to low resource settings, is it necessary to specifically mention resource considerations”
- Consider loading one year’s worth of podcasts/videos onto cheap flash drives and sending to registrar/residency training programmes around the world.
Technical:
Try list a resource’s (e.g. video/podcast) actual size next to download button, so someone doesn’t have to click download and then cancel quickly when they discover it is 500MB !
Compress files to as small as possible, does the image REALLY have to be that hi-res?
Podcasts:
- Keep short, or if long try to split into components e.g. Part 1,2,3 (we understand sometimes this is tricky).
- Consider text summaries of podcasts.
Videos:
- Ensure downloadable, not just streaming, so that videos can be shared via flashdisks etc. to colleagues.
- When loading videos up to Youtube, you can set what the lowest quality available for viewing is.
Blogs:
- If you put a lot of stats/words into infographics, try set the ALT-text in such a way that if reader is viewing website with images switched off, they can still engage with your writing at this level of detail.
Also read here for a great article:
https://www.afjem.org/article/S2211-419X(18)30060-0/fulltext
