The amount of medical knowledge or more commonly known #FOAMed on Twitter is enormous. One way to capitalize on this is to be on Twitter and start following the who is who in what is what in Medicine. In the word of Joe Lex( who graduated almost 30 years ago and is now a professor in Emergency Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine Philadelphia ) put it: “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 (good) conference. If you want to know how we will practice medicine in the future, listen in the hallways and use FOAM”

1. Twitter
@SBTraumaUpd
ate

2. So why Twitter?
Because Facebook
is too mainstream?
These are the numbers of
medical education activity
in Twitter, staggering

3. These are the examples of the
hashtags

4. I can follow conferences by following
what’s happening on Twitter

5. Similarly, people can follow us back. These
are some of our @SBTraumaUpdate followers

6. And I can have
real-life
interactions with
some of the top
people in a
particular field

7. So how to get on Twitter?
It’s simple, takes less
than 1 minute

12. Looking forward to seeing
you on Twitter! and
remember the hashtag for
today’s event is
#SBTrauma