Making Knowledge

Translation Happen

Ken Milne

SMACC Chicago June 2015

Knowledge Translation Problem

There is a problem?

Paper Clip

Charles Sidney Burwell

Pathman: The Leaky Pipe Model

17

YEARS

Social Media Answer

Making KT Happen

Time to Reach 50 Million

FOAM=21st Century JC

"for the purchase

and distribution of

periodicals to which

he could ill afford to

subscribe.”

William Osler 1875

Free Medical education for anyone, anywhere, anytime

Dr. Joe Lex: FOAM Godfather

Logical Fallacies

Argument from

ANTIQUITYArgument from

AUTHORITY

Argument from

POPULARITY

Social Media Criticism

Critics of SoMe for KT

More SoMe Critics

Quality?

Annals of Emergency Medicine 2015

John Hughlings Jackson:

“It takes 50 years to

get a wrong idea out

of medicine, and 100

years a right one into

medicine”.

Examples Wrong Ideas

EGDT

Hypothermia

for OHCA

Right Ideas Using SoMe

Level A: Harm

TTM

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