Paediatric Emergency Medicine SIG

The intent of this page is to provide our broad community with free digital resources to help in their daily practice. If you find a resource you would like to add to this list, please contact us and it will be considered.

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PEM FOAMed Resources List

What is FOAMed?

It stands for Free Open Access Medical education. The term FOAM was coined in June 2012 in a pub in Dublin, during ICEM 2012.

FOAM is a collection of resources, a community and an ethos. The FOAM community spontaneously emerged from the collection of constantly evolving, collaborative and interactive open access medical education resources being distributed on the web with one objective — to make the world a better place. FOAM is independent of platform or media — it includes blogs, podcasts, tweets, online videos, text documents, photographs, Facebook groups, and a whole lot more.

FOAM should not be seen as a teaching philosophy or strategy, but rather as a globally accessible crowd-sourced educational adjunct providing inline (contextual) and offline (asynchronous) content to augment traditional educational principles. FOAM is the concept, #FOAMed is the hashtag

General Disclaimer Information

Whilst the resources contained in this list has been collated with due care, no representation or warranty (express or implied) is made by IFEM as to the currency, completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability, and/or availability of the resource listed as it relates to individual health care sites. In addition, no representation or warranty (express or implied) is made that these resources will meet your particular requirements for health or medical care. You should carefully evaluate the currency, completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability and relevance of the available information.

You should acknowledge that these resources do not indicate an exclusive course of action, or serve as a standard of medical care or a substitute for your own professional opinion. Variations, taking individual circumstances into account, may be appropriate and you must use your own judgment when making use of these resources. We recommend that you verify independently the accuracy, reliability and suitability of the information provided in these resources, especially in relation to drug doses.

This list may change without notice and IFEM is in no way liable for the accuracy of any Information printed and stored or in any way interpreted and relied on by a user.