Natalie Lafferty, Annalisa Manca, Rakesh Patel & Terese Bird - University of Dundee 

 

 

This workshop will raise awareness and demonstrate how tools such as blogs and twitter can support free open access medical education (#FOAMed) an internationally emerging trend in medical education.

 

 

• Understand how free social media tools such as blogs and twitter can be used to develop FOAMed resources to support learning.
• Apply the use of social media to design learning content tailored to specific learning needs. 
• Highlight the versatility of the FOAMed approach across the continuum of medical education and in different learning contexts.
• Understanding and evaluating the benefits of participating in FOAMed learning activities.