title: Social media, FOAMed in medical education and knowledge sharing: Local experiences with international perspective.
abstract: Social media, through the Internet and other web-based technologies, have become a means of communication and knowledge-sharing. In this article, we provide details about the social media traffic of various scientific activities, the organizations of which we have played an active role in. We also provide information in our native language through our FOAMed website, which has been published for about 30 months, with us acting as editors. We are comparing these local and limited ventures with examples from the world and aim to remind that social media sources play a very important role in sharing knowledge in medical training and encouraging local initiatives, like ours, with limited resources.
authors.affiliation: United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Clerkship, Internal Medicine, Al Ain, 17666, United Arab Emirates; Department of Emergency Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey.
authors.forename: Arif Alper
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Cevik
authors.affiliation: Umraniye Training and Research Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, 34764, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gokhan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aksel
authors.affiliation: Marmara University Pendik Research and Training Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, 34900, Turkey.
authors.forename: Haldun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Akoglu
authors.affiliation: Marmara University Pendik Research and Training Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, 34900, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serkan Emre
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Eroglu
authors.affiliation: Kocaeli University, College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kocaeli, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nurettin Ozgur
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Dogan
authors.affiliation: Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yusuf Ali
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Altunci
keywords: FOAMed; Knowledge sharing; Medical education; Social media