Jeremy Samuel Faust MD, MS, MA - @JeremyFaust Department of Emergency Medicine

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City

Your medical education…2.0

David Marcus, MD - @EMIMDoc

Emergency/Internal Medicine LIJ Medical Center, New York

Resuscitation 2014, Las Vegas, NV

Conflicts

Objectives

• Introduce the concept of “Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM)”

• Introduce the various forms of FOAM.

• Encourage physicians to use and/or contribute to FOAM.

• Describe a method for incorporating FOAM into your practice

A Wise Man Once Said:"If you want to know how we practiced medicine 5 years ago,

read a textbook.

If you want to know how we practiced medicine 2 years ago, read a journal.

If you want to know how we practice medicine now,

go to a conference.

If you want to know how we will practice medicine in the future, listen in the hallways and use FOAM."

- Prof. Joe Lex

FOAM, You Say?

So Who's At the Party?

Free, Open Access Medical Education

Some Folks You Might Already Know

And a Few New Friends:

But I Have Enough Friends

• Keep up with cutting edge EM/CC

• Remote conference participation

• Converse directly with thought leaders...

• Learn and retain more by Spaced Repetition

• Stay up to date on new resources and tools

• Get a quick consult, feedback on your own ideas, network, professional opportunities, etc...

• Do it all on your own schedule

Sure, but with FOAM:

Stuff I've Learned• NODESAT

• Perimortem C-Section

• Delayed Sequence Intubation

• Bath Salts

• Tox Reviews

• Advanced AW Management

• ECG Reviews

• Critical Procedures in EM

What’s out there?

Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Blogs

Blogs

• ALiEM

Blogs

Apps

What is Twitter?

•online social networking/microblogging service enabling users to send and read text-based messages (≤140 characters) known as "tweets". •you only read who you follow, vice versa •links to all web-based media •global conversation wing of Free Open Access Meducation movement (FOAM)

versus

Don’t pre-judge Twitter by how most people use it.

What can possibly be said in a tweet?140 characters

Avg. English word=4.5 letters

Roughly 30 words per tweet=maximum optimal slide

@JeremyFaust

A good tweet=a good presentation slide

TIPS TO GET STARTED• Follow people you’ve heard of (Emergency Medicine Celebs)

• Follow the 25 people followed by @FOAMstarter

• Lurk before you leap!

What is a Twitter Feed?

•constantly updating timeline of all tweets by you and people you follow. •real-time information sharing •conversations and debates

•conversations and debates Click for video

What is a hashtag???!!

“#” pronounced “hashtag”

how you search for and view concepts by topic (instead of chronology)

If “#RESUS14” appears in a tweet, it gets filed with all other tweets with

“#RESUS14”

#FOAMed is the hashtag for the free online Emergency Medicine education

movement

What hashtags should I search for?

#FOAMed (the continuity hashtag for the free online Emergency Medicine education

movement)

#EMConf (weekly resident conferences nationally)

Conference du jour: #Resus14, #SMACCgold

Others: #FOAMpeds, #MedED

FOAM feeds on David Marcus’ blog

#FOAMed

March 29th 2014, 9:37am

#FOAMed

What hashtags should I search for?#FOAMed (the continuity hashtag for the free online Emergency Medicine education

movement)

#EMConf (weekly resident conferences nationally)

Conference du jour: #ACEP13, #SMACCgold

Others: #FOAMpeds, #MedED

FOAM feeds on David Marcus’ blog

#EMConf

#EMConf

Top Ten Reasons to be an EM Doc on Twitter10. Channel the buzz: use turn your phone

obsession into something useful.

•Links to articles

•Real time debates

•Eavesdrop on leaders in the field

...or maximize your downtime.

@JeremyFaust

playing mindless game learning on Twitter

10. Channel the buzz: use turn your phone obsession into something useful.

Top Ten Reasons to be an EM Doc on Twitter

9. Change your participation from

old school new realitypassive to active

@JeremyFaust

•LiveTweeting a conference/talk = being a reporter, creating a news ticker.

•People around the world benefit from your tweets and thank you!

MST3K

9. Change your participation from passive to active

example: #ACEP12

8. Change your participation from active to passive

No need to actively search things out.

Twitter brings important things to you.

8. Change your participation from active to passive

•follow through on your intention to read that article.

•or learn what experts think.

7. Use Twitter to augment/replace your Journal Watch (or blog aggregator)

Mike and Matt’s US podcast

News from LAC conference

Random peds crit care update

MD from Costa Rica comments on

LAC

6. Go to conferences from your...anywhere.

@JeremyFaust

5. Ask questions at conferences

Conference questions via Twitter is coming. Get comfy now!

Twitter forces short focused questions, disallows diatribe.

Removes participation barriers: nerves/fear of public speaking

4. Keep up with the conversations that matter

4a. Keep up with conversations that matter less Weingart Lin Mattu Reid Le Cong Lex Mallemat

3. Make friends and professional connections now, meet them later

I will meet in the futureCadogen Thousands

more

I met this week Bryant

I’ve met in the pastUmana Gussow Ranney

Joshi Haber Marcus Benitez May Le Cong

2. Keep up with mainstream science media (as well as EM-specific journals)

1. Find amazing mentors/mentees all over the world. Share your expertise/acquire expertise.

@JeremyFaust

1. Find amazing mentors/mentees all over the world. Share your expertise/acquire expertise.

@JeremyFaust

The Six Steps to Academic Independence

But First, A Word About Protection

Rules of EngagementCaveat Emptor

Anonymity is dead

Nothing is deleteable

Everything is discoverable

Treat people with respect

Maintain professional standards

Do not violate your local policies and laws

You and your digital persona are inseparable

Step #1: Join Twitter• Register at Twitter.com

• To get the most out of Twitter, install the App on your mobile devices. Set up notifications via Settings.

• Follow users and hashtags (#)

• You DO NOT have to contribute

• It is OK to watch

• Check the feed when you can and follow links or conversations that appeal to you

Accounts to Follow@emcrit @precordialthump @criticalcarenow @mdaware @pharmertoxguy @embasic @boringem @m_lin @emlitofnote @lwestafer @amalmattu @eleytherius @I_C_N @broomedocs

@KangarooBeach @poisonreview @srrezaie Various medical societies And everyone followed by...

Resus14 Speakers and Social Media

Faculty on Twitter Mallemat: @CriticalCareNow Klauer: @EmergiDoc Nagdev: @NagdevArun Mattu: @AmalMattu Gharahbaghian: @SonoSpot Seif: @DinaSeif Wu: @TeresaWuMD Gausche-Hill: @MGauscheHill Nickson: @PrecordialThump Buck: @EDexam Parker: @EMPEMorg

The Social Media Team @Center4Resus @JeremyFaust @RobJBryant13 @KestlerMD @GruntDoc @EMIMDoc

Hashtags - #

• Unify conversations on Twitter

• Many already established, new ones come up often

• # often used to identify conferences (#SMACCgold, #Resus14, #AIUM14).

• Your starting tags:

• #FOAMed , #EMTOT, #EMconf

FOAMfeeds.blogspot.com

Step #2: Join a G+ Community

Step #3: Read Blogs

Step #3: Read Blogs

• Independently published, freely accessible, medical education.

• Your first stop:

• Academic Life in Emergency Medicine

• Life in the Fast Lane

Many Other Excellent Sites• Emcrit

• EM Lyceum (journal club)

• The Poison Review

• Dr. Smith's ECG Blog (Advanced)

• PulmCCMCentral

• ResusME

• SonoSpot

• BoringEM

• The Short Coat (Students!)

• EMS12Lead (Basic+Advanced)

• TheNNT

• EM Lit of Note

• MDAware

• BroomeDocs

• UnderneathEM

• Prehospitalmed.com

And many, many more...

Step #4: Podcasts/Vodcasts

• Audio/video recordings by many of the bloggers listed above, and more

• Some are pay-protected

• Found on iTunes or via their own sites

• Some are downloadable, all can be streamed

• Several offer free access via EM organizations

Step #4: Podcasts/Vodcasts

Some examples:

FreeEmergencyTalks.net (>1000 talks curated by Joe Lex et al)

Ultrasound Podcast (Mike Mallon, Mike Stone, Matt Dawson)

iTeachEM.net (Rob Rogers et al)

SmartEM.org (David Newman/Ashley Shreves)

Step #5: Join GMEP.org

• The Global Medical Education Project

• Free, community driven EM/CC learning

• User & Admin submitted question banks

• Image collections and other downloadable materials

• See how you stack up against others

• Lovechild of Facebook, PEERVIII, LinkedIN

Step #6: Keep It All Straight

Use your apps, and...

FOAMem.com Continuously updated listing of all FOAM blog posts (RSS Feed)

FOAMSearch.net Unified search portal for all FOAM resources (previously EMGoogle.com)

FOAMsearch.net

Essential Apps

• Aggregators: Pulse, Feedly, Flipboard

• New posts appear automatically; no need to go through multiple websites.

• After installing, search for and save all your favorite blogs.

• View online or on any mobile platform

The Six Step Plan1. Twitter

2. G+ Communities

3. Blogs

4. Podcasts

5. GMEP

6. Keeping it all straight

1. FOAMEM.com

2. FOAMsearch.net

3. FOAMfeeds.com

4. Apps: Pulse, Feedly, Flipboard

Learn, Interact

Stay Organized

Practice

Just Do It

It's good for you.

@JeremyFaust - JSFaust@gmail.com EMIMDoc.org - @EMIMDoc - EMIMDoc.ed@gmail.com