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A decade ago, the confluence of technology, internet access, and passionate people led to the explosion of free open access medical education—FOAM. Why read dull academic textbooks, outdated before the ink even dries, when you can listen to experts’ experiences of how best to care for patients? And it’s entirely free. Blogs, podcasts, and tweetorials soon poured out, promising to democratise medicine, dragging it by its stethoscope into the 21st century. Despite voices warning of the “personality-isation” of medical evidence, FOAM has largely worked. Many medical podcasts have audiences larger than local TV networks, and … |
