Free Open Acces Meducation: hype of de toekomst? | ThePostOnline

[From Google's English] "As the newspaper used to be a 'gentleman', as his medical journals  and still have the textbooks that perhaps even more: a bit dated and corny, but always praised for completeness and treated with respect. However, since the Internet is changing. New medical findings are immediately shared and commented on, and one tries colleagues of the latest best practice to provide: FOAM: Free Open Access Meducation (# foamed) ... Never before I was aware of the potential impact of modern information technology, I have always really laughed about the Web 2.0 hype, but must admit that social media is indeed a major impact may have. Previously, mass communication, such as press, radio and television, only one-way, but with the Internet and increasing use of social media, there is a dialogue and debate. A dialogue that is not hampered by differences in time zones or other obstacles. Creating social media networks to share information, to speak minded to start discussions. The dissemination and implementation of knowledge, 'valorisation' would grant providers say faster. It makes information more accessible for those interested. FOAM seems currently the most popular in intensive care and emergency medicine. These are the younger and more acute generalistischere branches of medicine. The term FOAM is also in this context conceived.  That especially in emergency medicine and intensive care are responding to this trend can be partly explained by excited that these subjects are wide and there is often rapid action is required. Or maybe just because these are the best subjects ... It's all still quite new and there are already appearing in various places manuals where to start in the still growing FOAM offer . Soon there will also be a second edition of the conference focused on FOAM: Social Media and Critical Care ( smacc ). This edition will take place in the Australian Gold Coast (# smaccGOLD). The special smacc is that the initiative comes from clinicians who, except in the clinic and academy also the internet have proven to be teachers and inspirers ..."