Slides of talk given by Jeremy Faust and me at Resuscitation 2014 in Las Vegas, NV on March 29th, 2014. Includes Twitter contacts for course faculty.

1. Jeremy Samuel Faust MD, MS, MA - @JeremyFaust
Department of Emergency Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital, NewYork City
Your medical education…2.0
David Marcus, MD - @EMIMDoc
Emergency/Internal Medicine
LIJ Medical Center, NewYork
Resuscitation 2014, Las Vegas, NV

2. Conflicts

3. 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

4. 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

5. FOAM,You Say?
So Who's At the Party?
Free, Open Access Medical Education

6. Some FolksYou Might
Already Know

7. And a Few New Friends:

8. But I Have Enough Friends

9. • 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:

10. Stuff I've Learned
• NODESAT
• Perimortem C-Section
• Delayed Sequence
Intubation
• Bath Salts
• Tox Reviews
• Advanced AW
Management
• ECG Reviews
• Critical Procedures in EM

11. What’s out there?

12. Podcasts

13. Podcasts

14. Podcasts

15. Blogs

16. Blogs
• ALiEM

17. Blogs

18. Apps

20. 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.

21. 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

22. TIPS TO GET STARTED
• Follow people you’ve heard of (Emergency Medicine Celebs)
• Follow the 25 people followed by @FOAMstarter
• Lurk before you leap!

23. What is a Twitter Feed?
•constantly
updating timeline
of all tweets by
you and people
you follow.
•real-time
information
sharing
•conversations and
debates

24. •conversations and debates
Click for video

25. 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

26. 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

27. March 29th 2014, 9:37am
#FOAMed

28. 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

29. #EMConf

30. Top Ten Reasons to be an EM Doc on Twitter
10. Channel the buzz: use turn your phone
obsession into something useful.
•Links to articles
•Real time debates
•Eavesdrop on
leaders in the field

31. ...or maximize your downtime.
playing mindless
game learning onTwitter
10. Channel the buzz: use turn your phone
obsession into something useful.
Top Ten Reasons to be an EM Doc on Twitter

32. 9. Change your participation from
old school new reality
passive 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!

33. MST3K
9. Change your participation from
passive to active
example: #ACEP12

34. 8. Change your participation from
active to passive
No need to actively
search things out.
Twitter brings important
things to you.

35. 8. Change your participation from
active to passive
•follow through on your
intention to read that article.
•or learn what experts think.

36. 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

37. 6. Go to conferences from your...anywhere.
@JeremyFaust

38. 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

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

40. 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 past
Umana Gussow Ranney
Joshi Haber Marcus Benitez May Le Cong

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

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

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

44. The Six Steps to
Academic Independence

45. But First,A Word About Protection

46. Rules of Engagement
Caveat 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

47. 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

48. 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...

49. 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

50. 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

51. FOAMfeeds.blogspot.com

52. Step #2: Join a G+ Community

53. Step #3: Read Blogs

54. Step #3: Read Blogs
• Independently published, freely accessible, medical
education.
•Your first stop:
•Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
•Life in the Fast Lane

55. 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

56. And many, many more...

57. 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

58. 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)

59. 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

60. 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)

61. FOAMsearch.net

62. 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

63. The Six Step Plan
1. 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

64. Just Do It
It's good for you.
@JeremyFaust - JSFaust@gmail.com
EMIMDoc.org - @EMIMDoc - EMIMDoc.ed@gmail.com