Social media, FOAMed in medical education and knowledge sharing: Local experiences with international perspective

Arif Alper Cevik1; 2; Gokhan Aksel; Haldun Akoglu; Serkan Emre Eroglu; Nurettin Ozgur Dogan; Yusuf Ali Altunci

doi:10.1016/j.tjem.2016.07.001

Arif Alper Cevik^1,2, Gokhan Aksel³, Haldun Akoglu⁴, Serkan Emre Eroglu⁴, Nurettin Ozgur Dogan⁵, Yusuf Ali Altunci⁶

¹United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Clerkship, Internal Medicine, Al Ain, 17666, United Arab Emirates
²Department of Emergency Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey
³Umraniye Training and Research Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, 34764, Turkey
⁴Marmara University Pendik Research and Training Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, 34900, Turkey
⁵Kocaeli University, College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kocaeli, Turkey
⁶Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Izmir, Turkey

Keywords: Medical education; Social media; FOAMed; Knowledge sharing

Abstract

Social media, through the Internet and other web-based technologies, have become a means of communication and knowledge-sharing. In this article, we provide details about the social media traffic of various scientific activities, the organizations of which we have played an active role in. We also provide information in our native language through our FOAMed website, which has been published for about 30 months, with us acting as editors. We are comparing these local and limited ventures with examples from the world and aim to remind that social media sources play a very important role in sharing knowledge in medical training and encouraging local initiatives, like ours, with limited resources.