Blog and Podcast Watch: Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Zaver, Fareen; Hansén, Michael; Leibner, Evan; Little, Andrew; Lin, Michelle

doi:10.5811/westjem.2016.6.30193

Cited by 15 publications

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“…Recent innovations, such as blog-based peer review procedures [9-10] and quality appraisal tools designed specifically for evaluating medical education blogs (e.g., the ALiEM AIR score and the METRIQ-5/METRIQ-8 scores) [11-12], will be of interest to this group as well as their urban/academic colleagues. Using these quality appraisal tools, some educators are creating guides to FOAM posts [13], which are being published in traditional literature to bridge the divide between traditional and online resources.…”

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Use of Free, Open Access Medical Education and Perceived Emergency Medicine Educational Needs Among Rural Physicians in Southwestern Ontario

Folkl

Chan

Blau

2016

Cureus

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Free, open access medical education (FOAM) has the potential to revolutionize continuing medical education, particularly for rural physicians who practice emergency medicine (EM) as part of a generalist practice. However, there has been little study of rural physicians’ educational needs since the advent of FOAM. We asked how rural physicians in Southwestern Ontario obtained their continuing EM education. We asked them to assess their perceived level of comfort in different areas of EM. To understand how FOAM resources might serve the rural EM community, we compared their responses with urban emergency physicians. Responses were collected via survey and interview. There was no significant difference between groups in reported use of FOAM resources. However, there was a significant difference between rural and urban physicians’ perceived level of EM knowledge, with urban physicians reporting a higher degree of confidence for most knowledge categories, particularly those related to critical care and rare procedures. This study provides the first description of EM knowledge and FOAM resource utilization among rural physicians in Southwestern Ontario. It also highlights an area of educational need -- that is, critical care and rare procedures. Future work should address whether rural physicians are using FOAM specifically to improve their critical care and procedural knowledge. As well, because of the generalist nature of rural practice, future work should clarify whether there is an opportunity cost to rural physicians’ knowledge of other clinical domains if they chose to focus more time on continuing education in critical care EM.

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Use of Free, Open Access Medical Education and Perceived Emergency Medicine Educational Needs Among Rural Physicians in Southwestern Ontario

Folkl

Chan

Blau

2016

Cureus

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“…Currently, published evidence on the use and effectiveness of FOAM use within paediatrics is virtually non-existent. Though recognised within commentaries on the topic,14 15 published peer-reviewed research on FOAM in paediatrics is limited to short-term intervention studies16 and case studies 17. Even in the more popular specialties for FOAM (emergency medicine and critical care), current evidence on user behaviours is typically based around self-report data,8 which present its own issues and associated biases.…”

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Paediatric Free Open Access Meducation (FOAM): behaviours, trends and implications

Barton

Round

Knight

2020

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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IntroductionFree Open Access Meducation (FOAM) describes online resources assisting learning in medicine. Little is known about users or their behaviours.MethodsUsing Google Analytics for a popular FOAM site (www.paedatricfoam.com), we explored user demographics and patterns of behaviour. We analysed these further with descriptive and statistical tests using SPSS (version 26). Data are presented as mean (SD).ResultsThere were 181.44 (75.16) mean daily users accessing the site throughout a 4-month period during 2018/2019. 68.9% of users were female; 44% were 25–34 years; 57.3% used a mobile device. The mean session duration was 73.55 (9.41) seconds, with more time spent per session and a greater number of pages per session observed in users accessing the site from a desktop or tablet as opposed to a mobile phone. 84.3% of mobile users left the site after viewing a single page. Referral source was also associated with device used (p<0.001). Age was not related to user behaviours (p>0.05).DiscussionFOAM is a rapidly developing form of medical education, with large user numbers seen for a site just 2 years old. The site is being used by many beyond its intended readership. Rather than accessing multiple pages from a desktop, users have varied online behaviours, with the majority viewing a single page on a mobile phone, referred by social media or Google.ConclusionsGoogle Analytics can powerfully display usage of medical websites but has important limitations if statistical exploration is required. FOAM users are a heterogenous group, and thus content should be designed with this in mind. Further research must be prioritised focussing on the scope, curriculum coverage, accuracy of information and the effectiveness of FOAM as an educational resource.

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“…These two programs identify high-quality educational blog and podcast content. The ALiEM Blog and Podcast Watch series is authored by members of the AIR and AIR-Pro Series' editorial boards to create written summaries of these selected posts [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. This installment from the series summarizes the highest-scoring social media educational resources on infectious diseases as determined by expert opinion.…”

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confidence: 99%

Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) Blog and Podcast Watch: Infectious Diseases

Ediger

Sumpter

Bridwell

et al. 2020

Cureus

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Blog and Podcast Watch: Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Use of Free, Open Access Medical Education and Perceived Emergency Medicine Educational Needs Among Rural Physicians in Southwestern Ontario

Use of Free, Open Access Medical Education and Perceived Emergency Medicine Educational Needs Among Rural Physicians in Southwestern Ontario

Paediatric Free Open Access Meducation (FOAM): behaviours, trends and implications

Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) Blog and Podcast Watch: Infectious Diseases

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