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Defining a Role for Webinars in Surgical Training Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: Trainee Consensus Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic posed several challenges for surgical training, including the suspension of many in-person teaching sessions in lieu of webinars. As restrictions have eased, both prepandemic and postpandemic training methods should be used. OBJECTIVE: This study investigates traine...

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Autores principales: Barlow, Emma, Zahra, Wajiha, Hornsby, Jane, Wilkins, Alex, Davies, Benjamin M, Burke, Joshua
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Publicado: JMIR Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9813811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36542431
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/40106
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author Barlow, Emma
Zahra, Wajiha
Hornsby, Jane
Wilkins, Alex
Davies, Benjamin M
Burke, Joshua
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic posed several challenges for surgical training, including the suspension of many in-person teaching sessions in lieu of webinars. As restrictions have eased, both prepandemic and postpandemic training methods should be used. OBJECTIVE: This study investigates trainees’ experiences of webinars during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop recommendations for their effective integration into surgical training going forward. METHODS: This project was led by the Association of Surgeons in Training and used an iterative process with mixed qualitative methods to consolidate arguments for and against webinars, and the drivers and barriers to their effective delivery, into recommendations. This involved 3 phases: (1) a web-based survey, (2) focus group interviews, and (3) a consensus session using a nominal group technique. RESULTS: Trainees (N=281) from across specialties and grades confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in webinars for surgical training. While there were concerns, particularly around the utility for practical training (80.9%), the majority agreed that webinars had a role in training following the COVID-19 pandemic (90.2%). The cited benefits included improved access or flexibility and potential standardization of training. The majority of limitations were technical. These perspectives were refined through focus group interviews (n=18) into 25 recommendations, 23 of which were ratified at a consensus meeting, which was held at the Association of Surgeons in Training 2021 conference. CONCLUSIONS: Webinars have a role in surgical training following the COVID-19 pandemic. The 23 recommendations encompass indications and technical considerations but also discuss important knowledge gaps. They should serve as an initial framework for ensuring that webinars add value and continue to evolve as a tool for training. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry ChiCTR2200055325; http://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojen.aspx?proj=142802
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spelling pubmed-98138112023-01-06 Defining a Role for Webinars in Surgical Training Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: Trainee Consensus Qualitative Study Barlow, Emma Zahra, Wajiha Hornsby, Jane Wilkins, Alex Davies, Benjamin M Burke, Joshua JMIR Med Educ Original Paper BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic posed several challenges for surgical training, including the suspension of many in-person teaching sessions in lieu of webinars. As restrictions have eased, both prepandemic and postpandemic training methods should be used. OBJECTIVE: This study investigates trainees’ experiences of webinars during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop recommendations for their effective integration into surgical training going forward. METHODS: This project was led by the Association of Surgeons in Training and used an iterative process with mixed qualitative methods to consolidate arguments for and against webinars, and the drivers and barriers to their effective delivery, into recommendations. This involved 3 phases: (1) a web-based survey, (2) focus group interviews, and (3) a consensus session using a nominal group technique. RESULTS: Trainees (N=281) from across specialties and grades confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in webinars for surgical training. While there were concerns, particularly around the utility for practical training (80.9%), the majority agreed that webinars had a role in training following the COVID-19 pandemic (90.2%). The cited benefits included improved access or flexibility and potential standardization of training. The majority of limitations were technical. These perspectives were refined through focus group interviews (n=18) into 25 recommendations, 23 of which were ratified at a consensus meeting, which was held at the Association of Surgeons in Training 2021 conference. CONCLUSIONS: Webinars have a role in surgical training following the COVID-19 pandemic. The 23 recommendations encompass indications and technical considerations but also discuss important knowledge gaps. They should serve as an initial framework for ensuring that webinars add value and continue to evolve as a tool for training. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry ChiCTR2200055325; http://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojen.aspx?proj=142802 JMIR Publications 2022-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9813811/ /pubmed/36542431 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/40106 Text en ©Emma Barlow, Wajiha Zahra, Jane Hornsby, Alex Wilkins, Benjamin M Davies, Joshua Burke. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (https://mededu.jmir.org), 21.12.2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Education, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://mededu.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Burke, Joshua
Defining a Role for Webinars in Surgical Training Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: Trainee Consensus Qualitative Study
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title_short Defining a Role for Webinars in Surgical Training Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: Trainee Consensus Qualitative Study
title_sort defining a role for webinars in surgical training beyond the covid-19 pandemic in the united kingdom: trainee consensus qualitative study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9813811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36542431
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/40106
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