Thoma Brent, Chan Teresa, Desouza Natalie, Lin Michelle
1Learning Laboratory and Division of Medical Simulation,Department of Emergency Medicine,Massachusetts General Hospital,Boston,MA.
3MedEdLIFE Research Collaborative,San Francisco,CA.
CJEM. 2015 Mar;17(2):188-91. doi: 10.2310/8000.2014.141393.
Emergency physicians are leaders in the ''free open-access meducation'' (FOAM) movement. The mandate of FOAM is to create open-access education and knowledge translation resources for trainees and practicing physicians (e.g., blogs, podcasts, and vodcasts). Critics of FOAM have suggested that because such resources can be easily published online without quality control mechanisms, unreviewed FOAM resources may be erroneous or biased. We present a new initiative to incorporate open, expert, peer review into an established academic medical blog. Experts provided either pre- or postpublication reviews that were visible to blog readers. This article outlines the details of this initiative and discusses the potentially transformative impact of this educational innovation.
急诊医生是“免费开放获取医学教育”（FOAM）运动的领导者。FOAM的使命是为实习医生和执业医生创建开放获取的教育和知识转化资源（例如博客、播客和视频播客）。FOAM的批评者认为，由于此类资源可以在没有质量控制机制的情况下轻松在线发布，未经审核的FOAM资源可能存在错误或偏见。我们提出了一项新举措，将开放、专家同行评审纳入一个成熟的学术医学博客。专家提供了博客读者可见的发表前或发表后评审。本文概述了该举措的细节，并讨论了这一教育创新可能产生的变革性影响。
