title: PEMNetwork: Barriers and Enablers to Collaboration and Multimedia Education in the Digital Age.
abstract: In January 2005, PEMFellows.com was created to unify fellows in pediatric emergency medicine. Since then, the website has expanded, contracted, and focused to adapt to the interests of the pediatric emergency medicine practitioner during the internet boom. This review details the innovation of the PEMNetwork, from the inception of the initial website and its evolution into a needs-based, user-directed educational hub. Barriers and enablers to success are detailed with unique examples from descriptive analysis and metrics of PEMNetwork web traffic as well as examples from other online medical communities and digital education websites.
authors.affiliation: From the *Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO; †Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; ‡Yale University, Yale-New Haven Medical Center, New Haven, CT; §Columbia University, Children's Hospital of New York, New York, NY; ∥University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; ¶NEOMED, Emergency Services Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; #Washington University, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO; **Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and ††University of Southern California, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lumba-Brown
authors.forename: Sonny
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tat
authors.forename: Marc A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Auerbach
authors.forename: David O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Kessler
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alletag
authors.forename: Purva
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grover
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schnadower
authors.forename: Charles G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Macias
authors.forename: Todd P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006801:Humans; D019212:Multimedia / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000070316:Pediatric Emergency Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D064878:Web Browser