Slides for 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)

3. FREE
OPEN
ACCESS
MEDUCATION

5. h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/foam/

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

7. “…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/

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

9. Taking
the
world
by
STORM
(in
a
small
way)
Photo
by
JD
Hancock

10. 230 EMCC
blogs
in
24 Countries
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/emcc-­‐blog-­‐update-­‐2013/

13. IT
KEEPS
GETTING
BIGGER…
>30,000
page
views
daily

14. Your
students
will
leave you behind

16. FOAM
=
Social Media

17. FOAM
=
Social Media

18. FREE
OPEN
ACCESS
MEDUCATION

19. A
waste
of
Mme?

20. Photo
from
smacc.net.au

22. #Hashtags
Ce
tweets
together
#FOAMed
#FOAMcc
#smaccGOLD

23. #smacc2013

24. No
Peer Review
=
Bad?

25. Image
from
h"p://raMonallyspeaking.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/radical-­‐reform-­‐for-­‐peer-­‐review.html

26. Publish
then
Filter

27. Translate and
disseminate
knowledge

28. Source
unknown

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

31. That’s
just in
time…

32. Tacit
knowledge
sharing
Photo
credit:
stefan

34. Nothing
replaces
the
bedside mentor
Photos
of
Sir
William
Osler
from
www.collecMonscanada.gc.ca

35.
License
Image
credit:
zipckr

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

37. “I
don’t
have
Cme
not
to
use
social
media”
Bertalan
Mesco
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/informaMon-­‐overload/

38. CAVEAT
EMPTOR
Think
criMcally

39. Lobotomise,
blood let,
and perform
EGDT!

41. A jackass in
the real
world will be a
jackass online
Photo
by
publicenergy

42. Photo
by
MisterSnappy

43. Photo
from
The
MAtrix

44. TO
GET
#FOAMed

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

46. h"p://googlefoam.com

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

48. InfoamaMca.org

50. It is up to
us to save
the world!
The
22nd
of
Peter
Safar’s
Laws
for
the
NavigaCon
of
Life
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/04/laws-­‐for-­‐the-­‐navigaMon-­‐of-­‐life/