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At the last SMACC event in Sydney the Brazilians turned up in force. It was impressive. They came to learn but quickly it became apparent that we should be learning from them too. I won\u2019t pretend to be a SoMe expert but I have never come across such sophisticated use of Instagram as a #FOAMed tool. Instagram is pretty huge and it may well be the number one SoMe platform for the generation that is entering medicine now. So if you are interested in things like teaching young nurses, doctors, paramedics then you might learn something really useful from an unusual source. Instagram is not a fringe #FOAMed platform when Nursing Educators have nearly 200000 followers on Instagram.\nFirst let\u2019s quickly talk about the weird thing that just happened to you if you listened to the podcast first. Yes the podcast is 80% Portugu\xeas. It starts with that annoying Irish guy and then the Portugu\xeas starts at 6:20 when Henrique Herpich takes over. The English starts again at 24:20, cue laughs and we are done. We immediately went out for drinks and there is a reason that the Irish and the Brazilians get on very well. (My brother in law is Brazilian. He is extremely cool. Ol\xe1 Gustavo!)\nBut why? Why would I try to alienate the listeners to this podcast by hitting them with a podcast in another language? The Lusophone Commonwealth is why. Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Macau, Cape Verde and S\xe3o Tom\xe9 and Pr\xedncipe. 207 million Portuguese speakers in Brazil alone. Most Portuguese speakers are in countries where medicine is either developing very fast or in need of developing very fast! So they could do with some Portugu\xeas FOAMed. So we need FOAM other than English; #FOAMOTE\nThe hope is that everyone involved with #FOAM and #FOAMed will look to their language-other-than-English colleagues and see opportunities and not barriers. These people want to work together and the fact that YOU don\u2019t speak their language does NOT mean that you cannot work together. (That and the fact that @Sandnsurf speaks Portugue\u015b and wanted to hear more Portugue\u015b podcasts.)\n\u2028This PodcastThese are the #FOAMedBRA people that were in the room:\nIan, Henrique, Lucas, Jule, Niciole and Daniel.\n@breakem www.breakem.org Go there and click on \u201cQuem seguimos\u201d (Who we Follow).\n(Nearly Dr) Henrique Herpich Twitter @H_Herpich\nDr Lucas Oliveira J. e Silva @Lucasojesilva12 isaem.net\nDr Jule Santos emergenciarules.com Twitter; @julesantosER Instagram; Emergencia Rules and a podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/emerg%C3%AAncia-rules/id1387183276\nDr Nicole Pinheiro @nicolepin\nDr Daniel Schubert Twitter @ducschub\nSo what I want all #FOAMedBRA people to do is spread this around all the nurses, doctors, paramedics in the Portugue\u015b speaking world and get them to visit this post, listen to this podcast because this is a felicitation. This is people like me and people like you saying \u201cHelloMyNameIsXXXX, nice to meet you, how can I help?\u201d to the entire Lusophonic world. There is more that unites us than divides us.\u2028\nFOAMbra Links are all on LITFL.com and TheTopEnd.org