Title: Social Media and EMS Education
1Social Media and EMS Education
- Michael Abernethy MD FAAEM
2Disclosures
- I have conflicts in my life
- I have interests in my life
- The two do not overlap
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4Questions regarding current use of  spinal
immobilization for trauma
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9This is not unique to just one area
- Advanced Airway
- Trauma resuscitation
- Cardiac resuscitation
- Prehospital CC
- Stroke
- Sepsis
- CC pediatrics
- And on and on and on..
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11MEDIA
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22The problem with Traditional Media
23AM radio in the 1960sSmall Town America
24But was it always ?
Tom Abernethy WSTV Radio Phone Party 1960-1988
25Social Media Definition
- The interaction among people in which they
create, share or exchange information and ideas
in virtual communities and networks
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29Social Media How do we use it?
- Keep in touch with family/friends
- News, Current events
- Gaming
- Blogs personal publishing to the masses
- Networking Business E-commerce
- Politics Social Conscience
- Marketing
- Education!
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31Twitter
32Twitter itself contains limited info Its value
is as a link to definitive blogs, scholarly
references, journal articles. It also provides
almost worldwide instant contact with many of
their authors
- Find people with similar interests follow them.
If their tweets are uninteresting and not
pertinent to your interests Unfollow them
33Twitter 101 - Create a Profile
34Twitter 101 What is a Tweet?
- 120 characters - a message
- Can also contain a hashtag ie UWEM
- Link to any internet address/webpage
- Photos
35Twitter 101
- Handle your Twitter name. Starts with a _at_
- Followers Those people who choose to receive
your tweets - Following Those people whose tweets you choose
to receive Twitter feed - Followers does not always equal Following
- Retweet- how your tweet can reach thousands
- How many can you truly follow?
36If you think you are special/famous because you
have 1000 Twitter followers Just remember
Justin Beiber has 51,000,000
37Twitter 101 Find someone with similar interests
See who they are following and start following
38Twitter
- You can follow ANYONE no friending
- You dont have to use your name you can be
relatively anonymous - But Anyone can follow you
- It can totally be one way you can follow
hundreds and never post your own tweet - Think before you post it will be out there
forever for anyone to see
39Social Media Conduct Rules
- Never discuss patient specific issues
- Never be anonymous in any opinions or postings
(anonymous lurking OK) - Remember EVERYONE is watching. Assume your
posts will go on a billboard in front of your
place of employment and your Mom will be able to
read it - You can be controversial, even edgy but BE NICE
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42We need to stop re-inventing the wheel in every
department, in every hospital, in every state, in
every country_at_precordialthump
43Slaying Medical Dogma
- Very smart people with extensive experience who
have a command of the medical literature
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52FOAMed What is it?
- Free Open Access Medical Education
- FOAM is independent of platform or media
- Not a teaching philosophy or strategy
- It is a globally accessible crowd-sourced
educational adjunctÂ
53FOAM is a useful way of disseminating,
dis-cussing, dissecting and deliberating over the
products of that research as well as exploring
issues where research ?ndings do not apply, or
simply do not exist
- Christopher Nickson Mike Cadogan
54FOAM is the conceptFOAMed is the Twitter
hashtag
55I dont have/want a Twitter account. Can I still
access the benefits of FOAMed?
56lifeinthefastlane.com
57Hundreds of EMS blogs
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60Peer Review? It Aint All That
61FOAMed No Formal Peer Review
- 24/7 Near instantaneous, post publication
commentary by anyone with an internet connection
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64Twitter/Online relationships, are they real ?
65My one year Social Media experience(thus far)
66DevelopingEM Havana
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70FOAMedWhat are you waiting for !
71Questions ???
72Thomas the Tank EngineThe crystal meth years.