FOAM Cortex

Institutional knowledge already lives in PDFs, docs, slides, spreadsheets, CSVs, and images. FOAM Cortex Institutions lets teams add the files they already use — then makes them searchable, ranked, and clinically useful.

Source spotlight: PEMBLog PEMBlog provides concise, practical, evidence-informed education for pediatric emergency clinicians, offering quick reviews, clinical pearls, and updates on common and high-yield… Source: pemcincinnati.com/blog FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

Source spotlight: EMOttawa EMOttawa is a comprehensive emergency medicine education hub featuring regularly updated posts and teaching resources, it also hosts the Ottawa Handbook of Emergency Medicine. Source: emottawablog.com FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

Source spotlight: PEM Currents A PEM podcast led by Brad Sobolewski (Cincinnati Children’s) and other pediatric emergency medicine experts highlighting recent, practice-focused recommendations designed to… Source: pemcurrents.com FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

Good EM teaching usually starts with a real clinical question. FOAM Cortex helps educators turn recurring ED questions into teaching pearls, source lists, CME outlines, board-style questions, and follow-up reading. foamcortex.com/use-cases/clin…

We’ve added Closing the Gap to the FOAM Cortex source library. Created by Dr. Brian Lin, it’s a practical, clinician-centered resource for wound care and laceration repair — bedside teaching for emergency clinicians. Grateful for what he built, and honored to carry it forward.

Source spotlight: Critical Care Time A critical care education platform centered on a podcast “for everyone who cares for the critically ill,” emphasizing multi-modality learning, physiology-first… Source: criticalcaretime.com FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

Procedures and POCUS are where small details matter. FOAM Cortex helps emergency clinicians review setup, positioning, ultrasound pitfalls, complications, and cited technique notes before hands get busy. foamcortex.com/use-cases/proc…

FOAM Cortex now supports clinical calculators inside the answer workflow — with interpretation, caveats, and cited context alongside the answer. Starting with ED-heavy tools: PE, chest pain, trauma, sepsis, neuro, tox, and more. foamcortex.com

Source spotlight: First10EM First10EM has a strong evidence-based medicine focus, organized around practical clinical content such as resuscitation plans, critical appraisals, “deep dives,” and rapid reviews… Source: first10em.com FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

Rural and locums-staffed EDs often see the same acuity with thinner backup. FOAM Cortex helps clinicians review stabilization priorities, transfer logic, site constraints, and cited clinical context. foamcortex.com/use-cases/rura…

EM groups need consistency, but every ED has its own texture. FOAM Cortex gives teams a shared way to find cited clinical context across sites, without pretending local practice is one-size-fits-all. foamcortex.com/use-cases/em-s…

Source spotlight: PEM Playbook PEM Playbook is an educational resource dedicated to improving the care of acutely ill and injured children Source: pemplaybook.org FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

Great walkthrough from Owais Durrani on FOAM Cortex and the clinician-built tools shift. Grateful to the FOAMed community and excited to support clinicians where they work. Original LinkedIn post: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

A lot of good residency teaching starts with one question from shift. FOAM Cortex turns those questions into cited teaching pearls, debrief prompts, conference seeds, and follow-up reading. foamcortex.com/use-cases/resi…

Source spotlight: Pediatric EM Morsels A free, open-access site offering bite-sized, peer-reviewed educational posts on pediatric emergency medicine. Source: pedemmorsels.com FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

APPs in the ED don’t need a generic AI answer. They need the useful part: citations, red flags, disposition framing, and language they can actually use with the team. foamcortex.com/use-cases/adva…

Source spotlight: Highland Ultrasound An educational hub focused on ultrasound-guided techniques and regional anesthesia for the emergency care setting. Source: highlandultrasound.com FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

Source spotlight: JournalFeed JournalFeed is a physician-written literature-curation platform that scans major medical journals and delivers concise, evidence-based summaries of practice-changing studies for… Source: journalfeed.org FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com

Source spotlight: EMCrit An online medical-education project dedicated to cutting-edge critical care and resuscitation aimed at translating evidence-based intensive-care and emergency-department knowledge… Source: emcrit.org FOAM Cortex: foamcortex.com