Odayappan Annamalai, Venkatesh Rengaraj, Tammineni Raveendra, Nachiappan Sivagami, Iswarya Mani
Department of Glaucoma, Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India.
Chief Medical Officer, Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India.
Indian J Ophthalmol. 2021 May;69(5):1251-1256. doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_24_21.
To understand the perspectives of physicians regarding the role of webinars on continuing medical education.
An online survey comprising of 34 questions in nine sections was conducted using Google Forms. The link for the questionnaire was shared via e-mail and social media to practicing physicians. The survey accepted responses from September 10, 2020, to September 30, 2020.
In total, 509 ophthalmologists and 91 physicians from other specialties participated in the survey. The physicians were predominantly employed in nongovernmental institutes (25%) or were in private practice (33.2%). The preference was to attend a weekend webinar (62.8%), in the evening (52.8%), not extending more than 2 hours (97.7%), by ≤3 reputed national speakers (89.8%), each given 15 to 30 minutes for their presentation, and the topic being clinical or surgical skill demonstration (47.5%) or recent advances (39.5%). The residents were perceived to be the most benefited (65.3%). There was an equal preference for watching a webinar live or recorded (50.7% vs. 49.3%). Zoom Video Communications, Inc., was described as the platform that offers the best experience (43.8%). Webinars were considered to be better than conferences or continuing medical education (CME) activities (55.8%). The majority (43.8%) also preferred to get CME credit points by attending paid webinars. However, the broad consensus was that webinars should not completely replace the conferences (42.5%).
Our survey evaluated the participants' perspective and the advantages and the disadvantages of a webinar and provides suggestions for the conduct of an ideal webinar with maximum active participation. Future programs would greatly be benefited by this survey.
了解医生对网络研讨会在继续医学教育中作用的看法。
使用谷歌表单进行了一项在线调查，该调查包括九个部分的34个问题。问卷链接通过电子邮件和社交媒体分享给执业医生。调查于2020年9月10日至2020年9月30日接受回复。
共有509名眼科医生和91名其他专科医生参与了调查。这些医生主要受雇于非政府机构（25%）或从事私人执业（33.2%）。他们更倾向于参加周末的网络研讨会（62.8%）、晚上的网络研讨会（52.8%），时长不超过2小时（97.7%），由不超过3位知名的全国性演讲者主讲（89.8%），每位演讲者的演讲时间为15至30分钟，主题为临床或手术技能演示（47.5%）或最新进展（39.5%）。住院医生被认为受益最大（65.3%）。观看网络研讨会直播或录像的偏好相当（50.7%对49.3%）。Zoom Video Communications公司被描述为提供最佳体验的平台（43.8%）。网络研讨会被认为比会议或继续医学教育（CME）活动更好（55.8%）。大多数人（43.8%）也更倾向于通过参加付费网络研讨会获得CME学分。然而，广泛的共识是网络研讨会不应完全取代会议（42.5%）。
我们的调查评估了参与者的观点以及网络研讨会的优缺点，并为举办具有最大程度积极参与的理想网络研讨会提供了建议。未来的项目将从这项调查中受益匪浅。
