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The history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on all domains of urology. Annual educational conferences by prominent urological bodies were suspended, due to the inability of conventional conference to adhere to social distancing stipulations. Innovative methods of healthcare delivery were ther...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8097658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33976928 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2021.0364 |
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author | Shah, Milap Hameed, BM Zeeshan Naik, Nithesh Rai, Bhavan Prasad Bres-Niewada, Ewa Somani, Bhaskar |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on all domains of urology. Annual educational conferences by prominent urological bodies were suspended, due to the inability of conventional conference to adhere to social distancing stipulations. Innovative methods of healthcare delivery were therefore required to mitigate some of financial, health, training and research implications. Webinars is now a very popular method of communication and dissipation of knowledge with increasing adoption in medical education, training and also has been included in the curriculum of elite universities. The term ‘webinar’ is a combination of web and seminar, meaning a presentation, lecture, or workshop that is transmitted over the web. Webinars have proven to be convenient, flexible, cost-effective and reduce the carbon footprint. Furthermore, it is likely that webinars have a wider global audience reach and individual delegates have the ability to access more meetings from the comfort of their homes. The Urology community has been one of more prominent adopters of webinars in delivering educational activity during the pandemic. An estimated 400 urology webinars have been listed on DocMeetings since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, webinar is not without limitations. The didactic nature of webinars allows for minimal interpersonal interaction and constructive debate with the audience. It is however likely with potential technological advancements this going to be less of an issue in the future. It seems that the journey of webinars has just begun and will have an impact on training, education, communication and conferences for the foreseeable future. |
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spelling | pubmed-80976582021-05-10 The history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication Shah, Milap Hameed, BM Zeeshan Naik, Nithesh Rai, Bhavan Prasad Bres-Niewada, Ewa Somani, Bhaskar Cent European J Urol Original Paper The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on all domains of urology. Annual educational conferences by prominent urological bodies were suspended, due to the inability of conventional conference to adhere to social distancing stipulations. Innovative methods of healthcare delivery were therefore required to mitigate some of financial, health, training and research implications. Webinars is now a very popular method of communication and dissipation of knowledge with increasing adoption in medical education, training and also has been included in the curriculum of elite universities. The term ‘webinar’ is a combination of web and seminar, meaning a presentation, lecture, or workshop that is transmitted over the web. Webinars have proven to be convenient, flexible, cost-effective and reduce the carbon footprint. Furthermore, it is likely that webinars have a wider global audience reach and individual delegates have the ability to access more meetings from the comfort of their homes. The Urology community has been one of more prominent adopters of webinars in delivering educational activity during the pandemic. An estimated 400 urology webinars have been listed on DocMeetings since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, webinar is not without limitations. The didactic nature of webinars allows for minimal interpersonal interaction and constructive debate with the audience. It is however likely with potential technological advancements this going to be less of an issue in the future. It seems that the journey of webinars has just begun and will have an impact on training, education, communication and conferences for the foreseeable future. Polish Urological Association 2021-01-30 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8097658/ /pubmed/33976928 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2021.0364 Text en Copyright by Polish Urological Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Shah, Milap Hameed, BM Zeeshan Naik, Nithesh Rai, Bhavan Prasad Bres-Niewada, Ewa Somani, Bhaskar The history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication |
title | The history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication |
title_full | The history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication |
title_fullStr | The history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication |
title_full_unstemmed | The history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication |
title_short | The history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication |
title_sort | history and evolution of ‘webinars’ and their role in urology: the modern way of training, education and communication |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8097658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33976928 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2021.0364 |
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