Leveraging Free, Open-Access Medical Education (FOAMed) to Develop a Series of Whiteboard Mini-Lectures and Generate Digital Scholarship

The third year of medical school can be an exciting yet challenging transition for students from classroom-based education to learning on the medical wards. As students grapple with navigating a clinical environment, they are expected to accomplish the daunting task of learning the content relevant to their shelf exams. Didactic education in the hospital forms an integral part this adaptation to learning in the clinical setting; however, this instruction can be disjointed, and incongruous among various clinical sites. In this workshop, presenters will demonstrate examination of the existent curriculum of conferences for third-year medical students and identification of eight core topics integral to the internal medicine shelf exam. These topics were not yet explicitly covered in the existing curriculum of student-specific conferences. Using strategies and theories for multi-media learning, the presenters developed a series of whiteboard mini-lectures for third-year medical students on their clerkship. The lectures are based on educational content published by the Curbsiders, COREIM, Clinical Problem Solvers, and Run the List podcasts. Several mini-lectures were later re-purposed as educational "tweetorials" that were disseminated to learners to reinforce educational concepts. Participants will brainstorm ways to develop a series of didactics for learners at their own institutions. They will write learning objectives for a whiteboard mini-lecture and, before leaving, tweet one concept that they plan to teach at a future session.