why foam?... facts, fallacies and foibles
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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)TRANSCRIPT
FREE OPEN ACCESS MEDUCATION
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/foam/
h"p://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/03/flipped-‐classroom-‐future-‐medicine.html
“…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/
Photo from h"ps://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/osler/oslerbio
Photo by JD Hancock
Taking the world by STORM
(in a small way)
230 EMCC blogs
in 24 Countries
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/emcc-‐blog-‐update-‐2013/
IT KEEPS GETTING BIGGER…
>30,000 page views daily
Your students will leave you behind
FOAM =
Social Media
FOAM =
Social Media
FREE OPEN ACCESS MEDUCATION
A waste of Mme?
Photo from smacc.net.au
#Hashtags Ce tweets together
#FOAMed #FOAMcc
#smaccGOLD
#smacc2013
No Peer Review
= Bad?
Image from h"p://raMonallyspeaking.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/radical-‐reform-‐for-‐peer-‐review.html
Publish then
Filter
Translate and disseminate knowledge
Source unknown
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/web-‐20-‐for-‐emergency-‐physicians/
Flip the Classroom
That’s just in time…
Photo credit: stefan
Tacit knowledge sharing
Photos of Sir William Osler from www.collecMonscanada.gc.ca
Nothing replaces the bedside mentor
License
Image credit: zipckr
Filter Failure
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/informaMon-‐overload/
“I don’t have Cme not to use social media”
Bertalan Mesco
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/informaMon-‐overload/
CAVEAT EMPTOR
Think criMcally
Lobotomise, blood let,
and perform EGDT!
A jackass in the real
world will be a jackass online
Photo by publicenergy
Photo by MisterSnappy
Photo from The MAtrix
TO GET #FOAMed
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/blog-‐news/li]l-‐review/
h"p://googlefoam.com
h"p://iteachem.net/2013/06/ten-‐Mps-‐for-‐foam-‐beginners/
InfoamaMca.org
h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/04/laws-‐for-‐the-‐navigaMon-‐of-‐life/
The 22nd of Peter Safar’s Laws for the NavigaCon of Life
It is up to us to save the world!