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    "pk": 11406,
    "title": "Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) in Emergency Medicine: The Global Distribution of Users in 2016",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction:\n Free open-access medical education (FOAM) is a collection of interactive online medical education resources—free and accessible to students, physicians and other learners. This novel approach to medical education has the potential to reach learners across the globe; however, the extent of its global uptake is unknown.\nMethods:\n This descriptive report evaluates the 2016 web analytics data from a convenience sample of FOAM blogs and websites with a focus on emergency medicine (EM) and critical care. The number of times a site was accessed, or “sessions”, was categorized by country of access, cross-referenced with World Bank data for population and income level, and then analyzed using simple descriptive statistics and geographic mapping.\nResults:\n We analyzed 12 FOAM blogs published from six countries, with a total reported volume of approximately 18.7 million sessions worldwide in 2016. High-income countries accounted for 73.7% of population-weighted FOAM blog and website sessions in 2016, while upper-middle income countries, lower-middle income countries and low-income countries accounted for 17.5%, 8.5% and 0.3%, respectively.\nConclusion:\n FOAM, while largely used in high-income countries, is used in low- and middle-income countries as well. The potential to provide free, online training resources for EM in places where formal training is limited is significant and thus is prime for further investigation.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Medical Education"
        },
        {
            "word": "FOAM"
        },
        {
            "word": "online learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "low- and middle-income countries"
        },
        {
            "word": "International"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Education",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pz5k5rh",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Taylor",
            "middle_name": "W.",
            "last_name": "Burkholder",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Aurora, Colorado",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "W.",
            "last_name": "Bellows",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Aurora, Colorado\nDenver Health & Hospital Authority, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver, Colorado",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Renee",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "King",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Aurora, Colorado",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2017-10-19T18:23:13Z",
    "date_accepted": "2017-10-19T18:23:13Z",
    "date_published": "2018-04-05T18:57:53Z",
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            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/11406/galley/6178/download/"
        }
    ]
}