scholarly journals Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Emergency Medicine Contributors on Free Open Access Medical Education ( FOAM ed)

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 814-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Niforatos ◽  
Lucas Lin ◽  
Jatin Narang ◽  
Anthony James ◽  
Andrew Singletary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Financial Conflicts Of Interest

Self-reported Financial Conflicts of Interest During Scientific Presentations in Emergency Medicine

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 977-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Birkhahn ◽  
Christian Fromm ◽  
Todd Larabee ◽  
Deborah B. Diercks
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Financial Conflicts Of Interest

scholarly journals P032: Identifying the bleeding and thrombosis learning needs of the Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) community

CJEM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. S88-S89
Author(s):  
T.M. Chan ◽  
D. Jo ◽  
MD Candidate ◽  
A. Shih ◽  
V. Bhagirath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Anticoagulation Management ◽  
Allied Health Professionals ◽  
Acute Thrombosis

Introduction: Developing structured online educational curricula that meet learner needs is challenging. Thrombosis and bleeding are areas of innovation and change in emergency medicine. We aimed to determine the learning needs of the Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) community with the subsequent goal of developing structured curricula to meet them. Methods: A Massive Online Needs Assessment (MONA) was conducted to determine the perceived and unperceived educational needs in thrombosis and bleeding. The survey was designed by a multidisciplinary team of experts and was open from September 20 to December 10, 2016. The survey requested limited demographic information and contained questions to identify topics of interest. Respondents’ baseline knowledge and unperceived needs were assessed using 5 case scenarios containing 3 questions each. Knowledge gaps were defined a priori as topics where <50% of participants answered correctly. Results: We received 198 complete responses by staff physicians (n=109), residents (n=46), medical students (n=29) and allied health professionals (n=14) from 20 countries. 116/198 responses were from people working in emergency medicine. Topics of interest to participants included choice of anticoagulants, interruption of anticoagulation, management of bleeding and monitoring anticoagulation. Knowledge gaps were identified in 4 main areas including interruption of anticoagulation, management of bleeding (including reversal of anticoagulation and massive transfusion), inherited thrombophilia, and screening for malignancy in acute thrombosis. Conclusion: We have identified six priority topics to cover in our future online Thrombosis and Bleeding curriculum by surveying the online medical community. Although perceived and unperceived needs showed high congruence, two priority topics were only identified by assessing unperceived needs.

scholarly journals P018: How to get your departmental web content to work for you: one department's experience with free open access medical education

CJEM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (S1) ◽  
pp. S69
Author(s):  
K. Chandra ◽  
D. Lewis ◽  
P. Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Website Content

Innovation Concept: Free open access medical education (FOAM) is a quickly growing field. While there is an abundance of resources online, and on social media, the quality of those resources should always be questioned and reviewed. Furthermore, as medical learners progress in their training, they become lead consumers and producers of FOAM. Our educational innovation concept was the introduction of two FOAM streams into our residency program to assist learners to produce their own content with mentorship from our emergency medicine faculty. Methods: Medical students and residents training in the emergency department were encouraged to submit content to either our department website in the form of a clinical PEARL, or a research paper to the departmental Cureus online journal. All website content was reviewed by an attending physician and all Cureus content was submitted for further peer review and publication if approved. All published content was shared on social media through our department's Twitter account. A select number of residents were also mentored in reviewing and editing FOAM content and publishing it to our departmental website. Curriculum, Tool or Material: sjrhem.ca is the Saint John Regional Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine's website. A portion of the website is dedicated to posts arising from departmental rounds, case reviews as well as posts from learners in the form of clinical PEARLS. They are designed as succinct and informative clinical summaries and allow learners to share their content to a wider audience online. Cureus.com is an online journal of medical science, with a dedicated Dalhousie Emergency Medicine Channel. The editors are local emergency medicine faculty and senior residents, while reviewers are independent. In the last year, the clinical pearls received 5672 views, and the Cureus channel received 1143 content views. Conclusion: Feedback from learners regarding publication of their own FOAM has been positive and has allowed them to share their content to a much wider audience through our Departmental Website, Cureus Channel and Twitter stream. Furthermore, we are helping to prepare residents to produce their own high quality content, allowing our FOAM program to grow.

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