ALiEM has released a free, downloadable library for clinician-educators. Education Theory Made Practical comprises 8 volumes covering 77 high-yield education theories and frameworks.
Each chapter starts with a real teaching problem and turns theory into usable tools for feedback, assessment, curriculum design, debriefing, and faculty development. No paywalls, no logins, just practical FOAM education freely downloadable from the ALiEM Library This series grew out of the ALiEM Faculty Incubator, an eight-year international collaboration that brought together more than 240 clinician-educators.
The Incubator aim was simple but ambitious, to translate education theory into something clinicians could actually use. Each chapter starts with a real educational problem, explains the underlying theory in plain language, and then shows how it applies in day-to-day teaching, assessment, feedback, and curriculum design.
The final three volumes, released in January 2026, complete the set. They cover practical teaching methods, programme design and evaluation, assessment frameworks, educational sociology, leadership, and lifelong learning.
Together with Volumes 1–5, they form a library that spans everything from cognitive psychology and curriculum design to organisational change and adaptive expertise.
LITFL published a clinical update in Critical Care on 05 Feb 2026.
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