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Review
. 2023 Sep 26;15(9):e45986.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.45986. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Emergency Medicine Procedures: A Review of Approved Instructional Resources from the World of Free Open Access Medical Education

Jay Khadpe  1 , Christopher N Belcher  2 , Katrina Damore  3 , Jessica Hoglund  4 , Linda Katirji  2 , Matthew Melton  2 , Andrew Grock  5   6
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Emergency Medicine Procedures: A Review of Approved Instructional Resources from the World of Free Open Access Medical Education

Jay Khadpe et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

The Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) Series was created in 2014 to address the Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) movement's decentralized nature and lack of inherent peer review. The AIR series provides a topic-based, curated list of online educational content vetted by academic emergency medicine (EM) faculty that meets individualized interactive instruction criteria for EM trainees. Relevant FOAM resources were identified from the top 50 FOAM websites using the Social Media Index and then scored by EM faculty using a validated instrument to identify the highest quality posts related to a topic. This article reviews FOAM resources pertaining to EM procedures that were labeled as an "Approved Instructional Resource" or "Honorable Mention" using the AIR series methodology.

Keywords: emergency medicine; free open access medical education; lumbar puncture (lp); medical education; procedures; regional anesthesia; regional nerve blocks; wound closure; laryngoscopy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. FOAM posts search and review results
FOAM: Free Open Access Medical Education
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