In today's hyper-connected world, content is almost a non-issue. When we click on the web, tons of educational resources can be found in websites, blogs, YouTube and in medical education, a recent crowd-sourcing, crowd-sharing concept has emerged - FOAM (Free Online Access Meducation). In recent years, I've got caught up with the FOAM virus too! In this set of slides, I recommend the resources that I've found useful. There are many many more out there, but I think these are the ones that should help a resident or a physician in emergency medicine get started on FOAM, embark on a life-long learning, and use them for blended learning or flipped learning as well.

1. Recommended Web Resources
Related To Emergency Medicine
Compiled by:
Dr. Chew Keng Sheng

2. FOAM Podcasts

3. Free Online Access Medical Education
(FOAM)
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/foam/

4. The Philosophy of FOAM
If you want to know how we practiced medicine 5 years
ago, read a textbook.
If you want to know how we practiced medicine 2 years
ago, read a journal.
If you want to know how we practice medicine now, go to
a (good) conference.
If you want to know how we will practice medicine in the
future, listen in the hallways and use FOAM.
- from International EM Education Efforts & E-Learning by
Joe Lex 2012

5. FOAM Podcast:
Emergency Medicine Cases
Emergency Medicine Cases (EM Cases) is a free online medical education podcast,
medical blog and website dedicated to providing online emergency medicine
education and CME for physicians, residents, students nurses and paramedics. One
of Canada’s most listened to emergency medicine podcast hosted by Dr. Anton
Helman. In each podcast 2 or more experts in a particular emergency medicine
topic join Dr. Helman in a round-table, case-based discussion on key practice
changing clinical emergency medicine topics, which are then carefully edited to
maximize your learning.
Web URL: http://emergencymedicinecases.com/
iTunes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/oyc3pqj
Evernote show notes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/mofor3r

6. FOAM Podcast:
The Skeptics’ Guide to EM
Hosted by Ken Milne, much of the content is focused on the Best Evidence in
Emergency Medicine (BEEM) process. The goal of the SGEM is to cut the knowledge
translation window from over 10 years down to less than 1 year. It does this by using
social media to provide high quality, clinically relevant, critically appraised, evidence
based information.
Web URL: http://thesgem.com/
iTunes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/oyc3pqj

7. FOAM Podcast: FOAMCast
Don’t let this dull-looking picture deceives you! Hosted by 2 emergency medicine
residents, this FOAM podcast essentially is a review of other FOAM podcasts and tie
the contents of the reviewed podcasts to core contents (including textbooks contents
like Tintinalli’s and Rosen’s), providing some review and references for listeners to
read on their own, as well as board review questions donated by Adam Rosh of the
Rosh Review. Very suitable for residents/postgraduate students. Also great for
emergency physicians, even medical students…in fact, everybody!
Web URL: http://foamcast.org/
iTunes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/qzha9ge

8. FOAM Podcast: EM Res
An educational resource for emergency medicine residents, emergency practitioners,
and instructors of EM Residents. The goal of this podcast is to help EM residents in US
to get through their residency, while building a solid foundation of EM Core Content
knowledge. Another great resource for EM residents/postgraduate students.
Web URL: http://emrespodcast.org/
iTunes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/l3c9f5d

9. FOAM Podcast: EM BASIC
EM Basic is one it says it is: basics of emergency medicine made for medical students
and emergency medicine interns. Each podcast starts exactly how a patient
interaction in the ED starts- with a chief complaint. From there, important points of
the patient’s history and physical exam, the workup, and the basic treatment and
disposition of each chief complaint in the ED will be discussed; all in 30 minute easy to
digest audio podcasts. I personally find the host Steve Carroll, a little monotonous to
listen to. But it has good sets of show notes. The master file of show notes can be
downloaded in MSDoc here: http://tinyurl.com/ov4vpfc and in pdf here:
http://tinyurl.com/mm6hzpx
Web URL: http://embasic.org/
iTunes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/q59mytz

10. FOAM Podcast: The R.E.B.E.L Cast
Stands for Rezaie’s Evidence Based Evaluation of Literature in Emergency Medicine. A
relatively new podcast started in Oct 2013. This podcast will have 3 goals: 1. Set a
clinical stage, or hypothetical case; 2. Review evidence based literature; and 3. End
with a clinical take home point for your clinical practice.
Web URL: http://rebelem.com/
iTunes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/oe5yl49

11. FOAM Podcast: RAGE Podcast
The focus of RAGE podcast is on the educational ‘real world’ perspective to current
research, core topics and controversies in resuscitation and critical care.
Web URL: http://ragepodcast.com/
iTunes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/l929mwf

12. FOAM Podcast: Free Emergency
Medicine Talks
Web URL: http://rebelem.com/
iTunes subscription: http://tinyurl.com/k7rmowa
A HUGE collection of more than 2450 MP3s of emergency medicine talks recorded at
many national and international meetings. Some have poorly audible sounds.

13. A Directory of FOAM Podcasts
URL: http://lifeinthefastlane.com/resources/podcasts/

14. Selected Podcast Topics From Free
Emergency Medicine Talks
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/resources/emergency-podcasts/

15. FOAM Search
You can even search for more FOAM sites using a Google-customized search
engine
URL:
http://googlefoam.com/

16. Educational Resources Related
To Emergency Medicine

17. A series of lecture notes in pdf/ppt/ebook on emergency medicine RESEARCH including
topics like Elements of Research, Effective Medical Writing, From Project to Paper – How to
Write an Abstract, Ethical Issues in the Statistical Analysis of Clinical Research Data, The
Ethics of Mentoring, Data & Statistics, etc
http://www.saem.org/research/lectures

18. Create a Medical Students’ Corner
Select “Emergency Medicine”
FREE Emergency Medicine Introductory Online Course/Module in NextGenU.org.
GOOD for HO and medical students
URL: http://www.nextgenu.org/

19. RCEM (UK) E-Learning Platform
URL: http://www.rcemlearning.co.uk/landing/

20. RCEM (UK) E-Learning Platform
URL: http://www.rcemlearning.co.uk/landing/

21. URL:
http://www.cemfoamed.co.uk/
A Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) network by the CEM
(UK). It has podcasts, vodcasts and blogs covering a mix of topics
and links to other FOAM sites