Episode 46 – Social Media and Emergency Medicine Learning

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Education, Health & Fitness, Courses, Medicine, Science

4.7 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In early June of this year I caught up with Dr. Rob Rogers of iTeach EM and The Teaching Course, Dr. Ken Milne of The Skeptics Guide to EM and Dr. Brent Thoma of Academic Life in EM and Boring EM at the Canadian Association of Emergency Medicine Conference in Ottawa to chat about the evolution of Social Media & Emergency Medicine Learning. In this podcast, we discuss how Social Media can enhance your career, tips on how to get the most out of FOAMed without getting overwhelmed by the volume of material, swarm-based medicine, tacit knowledge sharing, the flipped classroom, the use of FOAMed in emergency medicine training curricula, how Twitter, Google+, Google Hangout and Google Glass have changed the face of medical education, and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Emergency Medicine Cases.com. I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's
0:06.9	brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto. On this month's episode number 46 on
0:15.1	social media and foam in EM learning, we have with us Dr. Rob Rogers, Dr. Brent Toma, and Dr. Ken Milne.
0:23.0	Dr. Rogers is an emergency physician and associate professor at the University of Maryland
0:27.3	School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he was the director of the undergraduate medical
0:31.8	education program for EM. He's board certified in both EM and internal medicine. He's the director of the teaching course, an annual course for healthcare providers to become
0:42.8	better teachers, and he's also the founder of I Teach EM Blog.
0:47.3	Dr. Ken Mill is an emergency physician and chief of staff at South Huron Hospital in Exeter, Ontario.
0:53.3	He's an adjunct professor in the
0:55.1	Division of EM at University of Western Ontario and his faculty for the best evidence in
1:00.4	emergency medicine, as well as the founder and host of the Skeptics Guide to EM Podcast.
1:06.0	He's won teaching awards, including Teacher of the Year by the Canadian Association of Emergency
1:10.5	Physicians.
1:12.0	Dr. Brent Toma is a resident physician of EM at the University of Saskatchewan and the founder and editor of the blog Boring EM,
1:19.8	as well as an associate editor of the blog, Academic Life and Emergency Medicine. He's also a simulation fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University.
1:30.9	This time around on EM cases, we're going to deviate a bit from the usual EM clinical topics
1:36.0	and discuss how we should learn, talk about, share, and apply our vast, ever-growing repository of EM knowledge.
1:45.0	Whether you believe it or not, online medical education has gone through a massive transformation,
1:50.0	a huge explosion, a cataclysmic revolution over the past few years.
1:56.0	Emergency medicine is leading the way in this important paradigm shift, which is embodied in the concept of foamed,
2:03.0	free, open access medical education.
2:06.8	When I started EM cases back in 2010, there were only a handful of independent online medical
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