Why FOAM?... Facts, Fallacies and Foibles

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h"p://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/03/flipped-­‐classroom-­‐future-­‐medicine.html  

“…and to teach them this art — if they desire to learn it — WITHOUT fee and covenant”

h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/from-­‐hippocrates-­‐to-­‐osler-­‐to-­‐foam/  

Photo  from  h"ps://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/osler/oslerbio  

Photo  by  JD  Hancock  

Taking  the  world  by  STORM

(in  a  small  way)

230 EMCC  blogs    

 in  24 Countries  

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IT  KEEPS  GETTING  BIGGER…  

>30,000  page  views  daily  

Your  students  will    leave you behind

FOAM    =  

Social Media

FOAM    =  

Social Media

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A  waste    of  Mme?  

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#Hashtags  Ce  tweets  together  

#FOAMed  #FOAMcc  

#smaccGOLD  

#smacc2013

No  Peer Review

=    Bad?

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Publish then    

Filter  

Translate and disseminate knowledge

Source  unknown  

h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/web-­‐20-­‐for-­‐emergency-­‐physicians/  

Flip  the  Classroom  

That’s just in time…

Photo  credit:    stefan  

Tacit  knowledge  sharing  

Photos  of  Sir  William  Osler  from  www.collecMonscanada.gc.ca  

Nothing  replaces  the    bedside mentor

 License  

Image  credit:  zipckr  

Filter  Failure

h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/informaMon-­‐overload/  

“I  don’t  have  Cme  not  to  use  social  media”  

Bertalan  Mesco

h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/informaMon-­‐overload/  

CAVEAT EMPTOR  

Think  criMcally  

Lobotomise, blood let,

and perform EGDT!

A jackass in the real

world will be a jackass online

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TO  GET  #FOAMed

h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/blog-­‐news/li]l-­‐review/  

h"p://googlefoam.com  

h"p://iteachem.net/2013/06/ten-­‐Mps-­‐for-­‐foam-­‐beginners/  

InfoamaMca.org  

h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/04/laws-­‐for-­‐the-­‐navigaMon-­‐of-­‐life/  

The  22nd  of  Peter  Safar’s    Laws  for  the  NavigaCon  of  Life  

It is up to us to save the world!