I've been reading medical blogs for a couple of years and it's been interesting how all the online medical education initiative seems to be carried by Emergency Medicine doctors. One can see in my own links of blogs that most of them are EM physicians. I've tried to look for blogs by hospitalists or nocturnists but google shunts me to industry publications (Like "The Hospitalist"). Where are the independent IM blogs and why isn't Internal Medicine more prominent in the #FOAMED trend?
The reason for the eminence of EM in the online FOAMED movement is multifactorial and I don't know enough about the history of the various blogs (Like Life in the Fastlane, EM Lit Review, etc...) to make an informed comment. An argument can be made that the stereotype of the ED doc's mind having
limited concentration and large volumes of distractions fits
conveniently into the scope of the internet. Another stereotype is that they are more extroverted and would thus be more likely to post things for everyone to see. Therefore, one could say that their
specialty is uniquely suited for this sort of dissemination of
information. This is just pop-psychology and probably garbage.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
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