FOAMed quite simply stands for Free Open Access Medical Education
It might be easier to get a couple of misnomers out of the way right off the bat:
FOAM IS NOT Social Media (Twitter, FaceBook, Google+, etc…)
FOAM IS NOT a Teaching Philosophy
FOAM IS independent of platform or media (Blogs, Podcasts, Videocasts, etc…)
FOAM IS an interactive collaboration of like minded individuals, free of geographic hindrances and time zones, with one single goal…to make the world of medicine better.
Quite simply, FOAM is the concept, FOAMed is the conversation