Abstract
The Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) series and Approved Instruction Resources Professional (AIR-Pro) series were created in 2014 and 2015, respectively, to address the need for the curation of online educational content as well as a nationally available curriculum that meets individualized interactive instruction criteria. These two programs identify high-quality educational blog and podcast content using an expert-based approach.The AIR series is a continuously building curriculum originally based on the Council of Emergency Medicine Directors (CORD) testing schedule. Using the ALiEM AIR scoring instrument, 49 blog posts and podcasts relevant to renal and genitourinary emergencies published within the previous 12 months were evaluated by eight attending physicians.We summarize the 13 posts that met our a priori determined quality criteria per evaluation by the reviewers.The ALiEM Blog and Podcast Watch series identifies high-quality educational blogs and podcasts for emergency medicine clinicians through its expert panel, using a validated scoring instrument. While this article focuses on renal and genitourinary emergencies, additional AIR modules address other topics in emergency medicine. The AIR and AIR-Pro series provide post-publication accreditation and curation of recent online content to identify and recommend high-quality educational social media content for the EM clinician.
Highlights
BackgroundThere has been a rapid rise in educational content available through blogs and podcasts in emergency medicine (EM) [1]
We summarize the 13 posts that met our a priori determined quality criteria per evaluation by the reviewers
In 2008, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education endorsed a decrease in synchronous conference experiences for EM residency programs by up to 20% in exchange for asynchronous learning - termed Individualized Interactive Instruction (III) [5]
Summary
There has been a rapid rise in educational content available through blogs and podcasts in emergency medicine (EM) [1]. In 2008, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education endorsed a decrease in synchronous conference experiences for EM residency programs by up to 20% in exchange for asynchronous learning - termed Individualized Interactive Instruction (III) [5] These developments created a need for both an online content quality assessment as well as a nationalized curriculum that met III criteria. For the ALiEM Blog and Podcast Watch series, summaries of these posts are written by the AIR and AIR-Pro series’ editorial boards [8,9,10]. This installment from the series summarizes the highest scoring open-access educational resources on renal and genitourinary emergencies. Resources with a mean score of 27 to 28 and deemed accurate and educationally valuable by the reviewers are given the Honorable Mention (HM) label
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