The times they are a changing
With the era of Generation Y doctors; open source publishing; micro-blogging; stumbling and tweeting now upon us it is important to review the potential implications of the internet age on emergency medicine.
Tag FOAMed
Information overload
How can emergency and critical care physicians deal with information overload? Here is one answer...
From Hippocrates To Osler to FOAM
Joe Lex's talk on medical education, 'From Hippocrates To Osler to FOAM', from SMACC 2013.
Why FOAM? Facts, Fallacies and Foibles
A video lecture by Chris Nickson that asks the question 'Why FOAM?', and explores the facts, fallacies and foibles of Free Open Access Med(ical ed)ucation' (FOAM). Includes audio only version and slides.
Creating the FOAMed network
I have been trying (with limited success) for the last 5 years to define the use of social media in emergency medicine and critical care.
Emergency Medicine Web Resources
The time-poor ED physician, faced with an ever increasing patient load, is finding it difficult to keep up to date with the expansive proliferation of clinical knowledge
The Blog is only as loud as the blogger
At LITFL and in the froth of #FOAMed we are constantly faced with a barrage of negative, cynical and disparaging comments on the role of the blog and social media in the provision of medical education and patient engagement
The road ahead for FOAM
Aidan Baron shares his view of the road ahead for FOAM/ #FOAMed: Information Overload, Content Consolidation, Sourcing Quality and Delivering Diversity.
FOAM, a deontological ethos
Michael Jasumback, arch-Devil's Advocate of FOAM, is back. He sent us this essay, in pure violation of the recommendation not to drink and write, and it would be remiss of it not to share it with the world.
Dispatches from the FOAM Frontier
Introducing Emergency Medicine Australasia's 'Dispatches from the FOAM Frontier' featuring astro-archeologists, time travellers, StrokeBots & more.
Busting the clotbusters (from SMACC 2013)
As revenge for an incident best left unmentioned, Chris Nickson of litfl.com handed me the poisoned chalice of speaking on tPA for stroke at SMACC 2013. This is the result. (Un)fortunately there is no actual video footage as I wasn’t…
SMACC FOAM Q/A
Joe Lex, Scott Weingart, Simon Carley, Minh Le Cong, Oli Flower, Mike Cadogan and Chris Nickson talk with the SMACC audience about FOAM... for nearly 2 hours!!!