Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) in Emergency Medicine: The Global Distribution of Users in 2016

The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Taylor W BurkholderRenee A King

Abstract

Free open-access medical education (FOAM) is a collection of interactive online medical education resources-free and accessible to students, physicians and other learners. This novel approach to medical education has the potential to reach learners across the globe; however, the extent of its global uptake is unknown. This descriptive report evaluates the 2016 web analytics data from a convenience sample of FOAM blogs and websites with a focus on emergency medicine (EM) and critical care. The number of times a site was accessed, or "sessions", was categorized by country of access, cross-referenced with World Bank data for population and income level, and then analyzed using simple descriptive statistics and geographic mapping. We analyzed 12 FOAM blogs published from six countries, with a total reported volume of approximately 18.7 million sessions worldwide in 2016. High-income countries accounted for 73.7% of population-weighted FOAM blog and website sessions in 2016, while upper-middle income countries, lower-middle income countries and low-income countries accounted for 17.5%, 8.5% and 0.3%, respectively. FOAM, while largely used in high-income countries, is used in low- and middle-income countries as well. The potential to...Continue Reading

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Citations

Jun 18, 2019·Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine·Joshua D NiforatosMatthew J Stull
Feb 12, 2020·Postgraduate Medical Journal·Jack BartonKatie Knight
Jan 5, 2019·AEM Education and Training·Timothy P YoungLarry Mellick
Feb 16, 2021·Teaching and Learning in Medicine·Adam RodmanMartin C Fried
Dec 12, 2020·African Journal of Emergency Medicine : Revue Africaine De La Médecine D'urgence·Arif Alper CevikJames Kwan
Apr 13, 2021·Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine·Simone RudninAbbas Husain
Apr 20, 2021·JMIR Medical Education·Ronald RiveraShannon Toohey
Dec 3, 2020·Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology·Pedro V StaziakiHarprit S Bedi

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