Reviewed and revised 5th July 2014 Since my first presentation on social media and web-based education resources at the 2009 ACEM Winter Symposium — and in many FOAM presentation since — a recurring focus from the audience is: How can emergency physicians and intensivists deal with information overload? The concern about information overload never goes away. Fear of … [Read more...] about Information overload
Twenty Twitter Rules
Herewith, stolen musings betwixt wordsmith and troglodyte. We present one side (the coherent one) of a tête-à-tête between Gregory Miller, MD and Matt/Mike Dawson, recorded sometime between sudoku-smackdown and coffee-time... ...I applaud you for taking on the huge field of Social Media. Blogs are easy to figure out. Most people don't want to … [Read more...] about Twenty Twitter Rules
Airways in the ED and on Twitter
This post is on two things that have irritated me recently. I'm reposting it from the FOAMcc G+ Community page. There has been a discussion on Twitter running the past 2 days about whether an emergency physician or an anaesthetist is the best person to take the airway in the ED. This is stupid for a couple reasons IMO. (1) we need to move away from thinking of skill sets … [Read more...] about Airways in the ED and on Twitter
Why FOAM? Facts, Fallacies and Foibles
Reviewed and revised 6 February 2014 Still not convinced that you should be involved in FOAM? In this talk I explore the facts, fallacies and foibles of 'Free Open Access Med(ical edu)cation' and hope to convince you that FOAM cannot be ignored and that you have a moral imperative to get involved. I recorded the video for the first Slovenian emergency medicine … [Read more...] about Why FOAM? Facts, Fallacies and Foibles
All A Twitter in the Annals of EM
The Annals of Emergency Medicine has published a few feature articles on Web 2.0, FOAM and social media over the past few years (such as this). The latest is titled 'Social Media and Physician Learning: Is it All Twitter?' (free PDF). Michelle Lin has summarised the key points from this article over at ALIEM, and asked me for my comments. So here is my perspective. The … [Read more...] about All A Twitter in the Annals of EM