FOAM – ISAEM – International Student Association of Emergency Medicine

O que é FOAM?

December 12, 2015

#FOAMed Portuguese, Blog, The #FOAMed Project

FOAM significa “Free Open-Access Medical Education” (Educação Médica de Acesso Livre). O conceito emergiu espontaneamente da coleção de recursos de educação médica com acesso livre que evolui constantemente na internet e tem apenas um objetivo – fazer do mundo um lugar melhor. FOAM independe da mídia ou de plataformas – inclui blogs, podcasts, tweets, Google hangouts, vídeos online, textos, fotografias, grupos no Facebook e muito mais. As duas principais características de FOAM são velocidade e acessibilidade. A velocidade relacionada a FOAM…

#FOAMed Project

FOAM, which stands for “Free Open-Access Medical Education”, is a dynamic collection of online resources and tools for lifelong learning in medicine, integrated as a community with the potential to reach every corner of the planet. The main uses of FOAM are to cut the knowledge translation window and to serve as an adjunct to traditional learning by providing accessible and reusable resources. Currently, the FOAM concept, often termed #FOAMed, is being used heavily among Emergency Medicine (EM) communities in…