CanadiEM: Accessing a Virtual Community of Practice to Create a Canadian National Medical Education Institution

The rise of free open-access medical education (FOAM) has led to a wide range of online resources in emergency medicine. Canadian physicians have been active contributors to FOAM.We aimed to create a virtual community of practice that would serve as a national platform for collaboration, learning, and knowledge dissemination.CanadiEM was formed in 2016 from the merger of two Canadian websites and a podcast. Using a community-of-practice model,...