12 Steps to Claiming and Completing Your Doximity Profile
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Doximity is a professional networking site for U.S. physicians, allowing them to manage their online profiles and reputations. Physicians can claim their profiles, enhance them by adding expertise, and engage with peers, which also influences hospital and residency program rankings by U.S. News. The document outlines a 12-step process for completing and managing one's Doximity profile effectively.
12 Steps to Claiming and Completing Your Doximity Profile
- 1. 12 Steps to Claiming and Completing Your Doximity Profile Farris Timimi, M.D. Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media
- 2. About Your Doximity Profile • Doximity is a professional networking site for physicians. Most U.S. Physicians already have a profile created from public records. • Doximity has a public-facing directory which U.S. News uses in its online physician locator. • Claiming and completing your Doximity profile is the first step to managing your online reputation, whether you participate actively in the site or not.
- 3. Additional Doximity Benefits • Adding sub-specialty expertise and interests raises your profile for patients searching on the public-facing site and on U.S. News. • By participating actively in the site, you can connect with peers with common interests. • U.S. News uses Doximity to survey physicians for its rankings of hospitals and residency programs, so claiming your profile gives you a chance to vote.
- 4. Step 1: Search for your name on Doximity.com
- 5. Step 2: Claim/Verify Your Profile.
- 6. Step 3: Add a Photo
- 7. Save Time: Upload or Email Your CV • Mayo Physicians: Go to RE-AIMS and download your CV (see next 2 slides) • Other Physicians: Get your CV as a Word document
- 8. Mayo Staff CV Download http://mayoweb.mayo.edu/reaims/
- 9. Mayo Staff CV Download
- 10. Save Time: Upload or Email Your CV • Options to Get Your CV to Doximity • Upload it to Doximity (see illustration on next slide), or • send it via email to [email protected] • Either way, Doximity will complete your profile • This lets you skip to Step 12
- 12. If You Don’t Upload Your CV • From the Doximity landing page, select profile in the upper right hand corner to edit and populate your profile. • In general, your profile will be skeletal, consisting of pulled PubMed citations but limited other relevant data. • Steps 4-11 are for manually updating your profile.
- 13. Step 4: Choose your clinical specialty (and sub-specialty, if applicable) from the drop-down menus:
- 14. Step 5: Add Interests (free text or auto-suggested as you type)
- 15. Step 6: Add Faculty Appointments and Work History
- 16. Step 7: Add Education and Training
- 17. Step 7: Add Education and Training
- 18. Step 8: Add Professional Memberships
- 19. Step 9: Add Non-English Language Fluency if applicable
- 20. Step 10: Add Hospital Affiliations
- 21. Step 11: Add contact information, including private line
- 22. Step 11: Add contact information, including private line
- 23. Step 12: Set privacy and notification preferences
- 24. Step 12: Set privacy and notification preferences
- 25. To Learn More • Visit the Mayo Clinic Social Media Health Network and get your free Basic membership • Send questions to [email protected]
Editor's Notes
- #6: On the landing page, you will need to verify and claim your profile by registering. To do so, simply enter your first name, last name, and then click “Find My Profile”. For the majority of providers, you will be taken to a second screen, where you will be asked to verify your identity as linked to the basic profile that exists within Doximity, typically from a list of similar names, and then guide you through the process of linking your e-mail account and setting your password. In the unlikely event your profile is not listed, you will be provided an opportunity to create a Doximity account-as highlighted in the following page (please note, this should be uncommon, as the majority of providers should be able to select their identity from the pre-populated list). If you have already claimed your profile, you will be provided the opportunity to recover your password.
- #15: Interests can be selected from the pre-populated list that auto-fills as you type, or you may choose to add interests as free text, as seen below, where I have added Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
- #16: The same process can be chosen for Faculty Appointments and Work History; select add to populate. These fields (particularly the descriptions) can be populated with free text (limited to less than 300 characters)
- #17: Education and Training is populated from drop down menus, first selecting training level (i.e., intern, resident, fellow, etc.)
- #18: then selecting state, institution, program type and dates
- #19: For those organizations that are not listed, you can select other and fill in a description with free text (up to 600 characters). Select save to exit.
- #22: Optional fields include Office Information and Private Information (which would only be shared only with those colleagues you chose to share it with), selected by selecting add on the right column. In essence, with each new connection you chose to make, you can decide whether to share private contact information or not. I would suggest limiting this to your office address, administrative assistants’ contact and your work e-mail address:
- #23: Optional fields include Office Information and Private Information (which would only be shared only with those colleagues you chose to share it with), selected by selecting add on the right column. In essence, with each new connection you chose to make, you can decide whether to share private contact information or not. I would suggest limiting this to your office address, administrative assistants’ contact and your work e-mail address:
- #24: You can designate which of your connections are granted access to your private contact information such as back line, mobile phone or email address.
- #25: Finally, as in all social media networks, you will want to govern your degree and frequency of e-mail. Select Account & Communication Settings, then choose how frequently you desire e-mail notification and communication: