Abstract:BackgroundFree open‐access medical education (FOAM) is extremely popular among learners and educators despite lacking the traditional peer review process. Despite the potential for inaccurate, low‐quality, or biased content, little has been published describing FOAM authors.MethodsWe performed a cross‐sectional analysis of 12 months of content from the top 25 blogs in the 2020 Social Media Index from August 2020–2021. We recorded the number of posts per site and descriptive characteristics of authors, includin… Show more
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