The LITFL Review 109

The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. Welcome to the 109th edition, brought to you by: Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL Tessa Davis [TD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and Chris Nickson [CN] from LITFL, iTeachEM and SMACC The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week  John Larkin’s ECG of the Week served up an absolute ripper this time round – had me soundly beat! [CN] Also in BMJ Blogs is a great little ripper by Richard Smith on one of my scientific heroes, ‘the smiling, brilliant, erudite, and cuddly John Ioannidis’ and his message that ‘Most scientific studies are wrong, and they are wrong because scientists are interested in funding and careers rather than truth.’ [CN] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine FOAM is on a roll, and continues to snowball. Emergency medicine residencies are increasingly getting on the act by using the #emconf hashtag on twitter to share pearls from their residency conferences. Check out ALIEM’s post on Residencies Embrace Twitter: An Educational Movement. International training programs...
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