Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd

Professor
Division of Emergency Medicine Cincinnati Children’s
Department of Pediatrics University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

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:

  1. Describe how FOAM came to be and how it is impacting medical education
  2. Develop a plan to utilize quality assessment tools to critically appraise blogs and podcasts
  3. Illustrate how FOAM can be used to disseminate new knowledge and research findings
  4. Develop a plan to incorporate FOAM and digital scholarship into your professional development activities in a meaningful and measurable way

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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

Lin M, Phipps M, Yilmaz Y, Nash C, Gisondi M, Chan T. A Fork in the Road for Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Blogs and Podcasts: Cross-sectional Study. JMIR Med Educ 2022;8(4):e39946. URL: https://mededu.jmir.org/2022/4/e39946. DOI:10.2196/39946

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

A review of how the Altmetric score allows for assessment of impact and dissemination efforts
Trueger NS, Thoma B, Hsu CH, Sullivan D, Peters L, Lin M. The Altmetric Score: A New Measure for Article-Level Dissemination and Impact. Ann Emerg Med. 2015 Nov;66(5):549-53. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.04.022. Epub 2015 May 23. PMID: 26004769.

Husain et al, West J Emerg Med, 2020

The key paper offering guidance to RPT committees and clinicians on how to incorporate digital scholarship into career development processes.
Husain A, Repanshek Z, Singh M, et al. Consensus Guidelines for Digital Scholarship in Academic Promotion. West J Emerg Med. 2020;21(4):883-891. Published 2020 Jul 8. doi:10.5811/westjem.2020.4.46441

Gray et al, AEM Educ Train, 2022

This scoping review defined the main themes that can form the structure of dissemination campaigns.
Gray JM, Schnadower D, Lafolette R, Shah AS, Sobolewski B. Going viral: a scoping review of the current state and impact of online research dissemination in emergency medicine. Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. January 24, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/aet2.10725

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