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Use of Free, Open Access Medical Education and Perceived Emergency Medicine Educational Needs Among Rural Physicians in Southwestern Ontario

Abstract

Free, open access medical education (FOAM) has the potential to revolutionize continuing medical education, particularly for rural physicians who practice emergency medicine (EM) as part of a generalist practice. However, there has been little study of rural physicians' educational needs since the advent of FOAM. We asked how rural physicians in Southwestern Ontario obtained their continuing EM education. We asked them to assess their perceived …

Authors

Folkl A; Chan T; Blau E; Chan TM

Journal

Cureus, Vol. 8, No. 9,

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

September 21, 2016

DOI

10.7759/cureus.796

ISSN

2168-8184