Blog and Podcast Watch: Neurologic Emergencies.
BACKGROUND
TheWestJEMBlog and Podcast Watch presents high quality open-access educational blogs and podcasts in emergency medicine (EM) based on the ongoing ALiEM Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) and AIR-Professional series. Both series critically appraise resources using an objective scoring rubric. This installment of the Blog and Podcast Watch highlights the topic of neurologic emergencies from the AIR series.


METHODS
The AIR series is a continuously building curriculum that follows the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Director's (CORD) annual testing schedule. For each module, relevant content is collected from the top 50 Social Media Index sites published within the previous 12 months, and scored by eight board members using five equally weighted measurement outcomes: Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) score, accuracy, educational utility, evidence based, and references. Resources scoring ≥30 out of 35 available points receive an AIR label. Resources scoring 27-29 receive an honorable mention label, if the executive board agrees that the post is accurate and educationally valuable.


RESULTS
A total of 125 blog posts and podcasts were evaluated. Key educational pearls from the 14 AIR posts are summarized, and the 20 honorable mentions are listed.


CONCLUSIONS
TheWestJEMBlog and Podcast Watch series is based on the AIR and AIR-Pro series, which attempts to identify high quality educational content on open-access blogs and podcasts. This series provides an expert-based, post-publication curation of educational social media content for EM clinicians with this installment focusing on neurologic emergencies.
Olive View, UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sylmar, California; Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
Andrew
A
Grock
Stanford University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford, California.
Nikita
N
Joshi
New York University, Bellevue Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, New York.
Anand
A
Swaminathan
University of Texas Health Science Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, Texas.
Salim
S
Rezaie
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee.
Chris
C
Gaafary
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, California.
Michelle
M
Lin