Young Bradley L, Cantrell Colin K, Patt Joshua C, Ponce Brent A
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, USA.
School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Arthroplast Today. 2017 Nov 26;4(2):232-235. doi: 10.1016/j.artd.2017.10.003. eCollection 2018 Jun.
Accessible, adequate online information is important to fellowship applicants. Program web sites can affect which programs applicants apply to, subsequently altering interview costs incurred by both parties and ultimately impacting rank lists. Web site analyses have been performed for all orthopaedic subspecialties other than those involved in the combined adult reconstruction and musculoskeletal (MSK) oncology fellowship match.
A complete list of active programs was obtained from the official adult reconstruction and MSK oncology society web sites. Web site accessibility was assessed using a structured Google search. Accessible web sites were evaluated based on 21 previously reported content criteria.
Seventy-four adult reconstruction programs and 11 MSK oncology programs were listed on the official society web sites. Web sites were identified and accessible for 58 (78%) adult reconstruction and 9 (82%) MSK oncology fellowship programs. No web site contained all content criteria and more than half of both adult reconstruction and MSK oncology web sites failed to include 12 of the 21 criteria.
Several programs participating in the combined Adult Reconstructive Hip and Knee/Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship Match did not have accessible web sites. Of the web sites that were accessible, none contained comprehensive information and the majority lacked information that has been previously identified as being important to perspective applicants.
获取充足的在线信息对申请专科 fellowship 的人很重要。项目网站会影响申请人申请哪些项目，进而改变双方产生的面试成本，并最终影响排名列表。除了参与成人重建与肌肉骨骼（MSK）肿瘤专科 fellowship 匹配的项目外，已对所有骨科亚专科的网站进行了分析。
从成人重建和 MSK 肿瘤学会的官方网站获取活跃项目的完整列表。使用结构化谷歌搜索评估网站的可访问性。根据之前报告的 21 项内容标准对可访问的网站进行评估。
官方学会网站上列出了 74 个成人重建项目和 11 个 MSK 肿瘤项目。已识别并可访问 58 个（78%）成人重建和 9 个（82%）MSK 肿瘤专科 fellowship 项目的网站。没有网站包含所有内容标准，超过一半的成人重建和 MSK 肿瘤网站未能包含 21 项标准中的 12 项。
参与成人重建性髋关节和膝关节/肌肉骨骼肿瘤专科 fellowship 匹配的几个项目没有可访问的网站。在可访问的网站中，没有一个包含全面信息，大多数网站缺乏先前确定对潜在申请人很重要的信息。
