Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd
Professor
Division of Emergency Medicine Cincinnati Children’s
Department of Pediatrics University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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This microsite is a companion to a presentation given at Cincinnati Children’s Pediatric Grand Rounds on December 19, 2023. The learning objectives of this presentation and its associated materials are:
- Describe how FOAM came to be and how it is impacting medical education
- Develop a plan to utilize quality assessment tools to critically appraise blogs and podcasts
- Illustrate how FOAM can be used to disseminate new knowledge and research findings
- Develop a plan to incorporate FOAM and digital scholarship into your professional development activities in a meaningful and measurable way
Downloads
Recommended reading material
Chan et al, ATS Scholar, 2020
The best available summary of the development of and current state of the FOAM movement.
Chan TM, Stehman C, Gottlieb M, Thoma B. A Short History of Free Open Access Medical Education. The Past, Present, and Future. ATS Sch. 2020 Jun 3;1(2):87-100. doi: 10.34197/ats-scholar.2020-0014PS. PMID: 33870273; PMCID: PMC8043296.
Lin et al, JMIR Med Educ, 2022
Colmers-Gray et al, AEM Educ Train, 2019
This paper details the development of the revised METRIQ score for quality assessment of blogs and podcasts.
Colmers-Gray IN, Krishnan K, Chan TM, Seth Trueger N, Paddock M, Grock A, Zaver F, Thoma B. The Revised METRIQ Score: A Quality Evaluation Tool for Online Educational Resources. AEM Educ Train. 2019 Jul 30;3(4):387-392. doi: 10.1002/aet2.10376. PMID: 31637356; PMCID: PMC6795360.
Trueger et al, Ann Emerg Med, 2015
Husain et al, West J Emerg Med, 2020
Gray et al, AEM Educ Train, 2022
The rMETRIQ Score
The rMETRIQ score is a user-friendly, rigorously developed tool to guide #FOAM consumers in determining the quality of #FOAM blogs. The rMETRIQ has been simplified into three main domains (content, credibility, and peer review) to guide users through a brief and effective critical appraisal of the #FOAM resource. The higher the score, the more reliable and high quality the resource.
Read more about it at the METRIQ website
