Slideset from a talk I give on FOAMed (free open access medical education) or social media for medical education. Another screencast version of it lives here. http://vimeo.com/66402102

1. For Medical
Education
Social
M
ed
ia

2. Who am I?

3. Why am I speaking on social media?
The best way to learn something is to try and teach it

4. Most doctors impression of social media
“I need to pee”
“I peed”
“This is where I pee”
“Why do I need to pee?”
“CHECK OUT this PEE”
“I have a PhD in urinating”
“I pee therefore I am”

5. What do we mean by social media
TwitterVideoBlog Podcast

6. The differences
Traditional Media
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Social Media
Credit:J Heffner Flickr
v

7. Isolated LearningSocialised learning
Effectively one big online version of your:
journal club
conference
training day
v

8. EmergencyMedicineIreland.com
education:
any time, any
where
Credit: Stefan on Flickr [via Chris Nickson]
go
mobile

9. Credit: JaraVillanueva on Flickr
Free
Open
Access
Meducation

10. the scale of this
> 200 EMCC blogs
> 30 EMCC podcasts

12. will replace the RCT?

13. knowledge translationvresearch

14. is knowledge
translation a problem?

15. Half of what you’ll learn in
medical school will be shown
to be either dead wrong or
out of date within five years
of your graduation; the
trouble is that nobody can
tell you which half...

16. adrenaline and the digit
1944 - textbook of hand surgery: “from this gangrene has often
resulted”

17. the bleeding edge of research

18. cautions

19. Social Media: a good way to get fired
1) Professionalism

20. DO
Share the Wealth
Listen
Comment
Add Value
Be Respectful
Give Kudos
Be Social
Be Real
Be You
Collaborate
Be Unprofessional
Spam
Be anonymous
Disclose patient information
Be Mean
Be Inflexible
Criticise
Publish anything when drunk
Be Negative
DO NOT
“An idiot offline is an idiot online”
1) Professionalism

21. 1) Professionalism

22. can we trust it?
the current gold standard

23. Post-Publication Peer Review
via: rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com
2) Quality

24. Mentor
Textbook
someone you trust...
presumed infallible...
2) Quality
in reality often out of date
they might be wrong
Who do I trust?

26. What it will not replace

28. a structured
training program

30. time with patients and
teachers

32. a curriculum

33. Relevance for EM training in UK/Ireland
small numbers of trainees
small numbers of trainers
limited training opportunities=
=
more trainees
more trainers
more training opportunities

35. Questions?

36. Can we integrate this into traditional settings?

44. Asynchronous Learning