Aryanpour Zain, Ananthasekar Shivani, Rajan Shrikiriti S, Reddy Sushanth
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Surg Open Sci. 2021 Oct 7;7:1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.sopen.2021.09.001. eCollection 2022 Jan.
The Internet is a major resource for surgery fellowship applicants, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online information for surgical oncology and breast oncology training programs can be found on the Society of Surgical Oncology's webpage and fellowship institution websites. The goal of this study was to analyze the comprehensiveness of complex general surgical oncology and breast oncology fellowship websites.
A list of all accredited surgical oncology and breast oncology fellowships was recorded from the Society of Surgical Oncology website and stratified by region. Then, a Google search was performed on each fellowship program to determine each institution's webpage. Two of the authors then analyzed 2 web resources, institutional website and Society of Surgical Oncology webpage, for each fellowship program to determine if information valued by applicants was provided.
Online information of 29 surgical oncology fellowships and 59 breast oncology fellowships was analyzed. Statistical differences were found among criteria in major information categories between Society of Surgical Oncology and institutional webpages for both fellowship types. Detailed criteria were more present on institutional rather than Society of Surgical Oncology webpages.
For applicants to surgical oncology fellowships, institutional webpages provided the most pertinent information and may be used as a primary resource to guide fellowship application. For applicants to breast oncology fellowships, Society of Surgical Oncology webpages may be used as a primary resource to guide fellowship application. Both Society of Surgical Oncology and institutional pages lacked pertinent information regarding interview dates, and these resources should be updated to reflect program highlights as well as pertinent information for applicants.
互联网是外科住院医师培训申请者的主要资源,尤其是在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间。外科肿瘤学和乳腺肿瘤学培训项目的在线信息可在外科肿瘤学会的网页和住院医师培训机构网站上找到。本研究的目的是分析复杂普通外科肿瘤学和乳腺肿瘤学住院医师培训网站的全面性。
从外科肿瘤学会网站记录所有经认可的外科肿瘤学和乳腺肿瘤学住院医师培训项目清单,并按地区分层。然后,对每个住院医师培训项目进行谷歌搜索,以确定每个机构的网页。然后,两位作者分析了每个住院医师培训项目的两个网络资源,即机构网站和外科肿瘤学会网页,以确定是否提供了申请者重视的信息。
分析了29个外科肿瘤学住院医师培训项目和59个乳腺肿瘤学住院医师培训项目的在线信息。对于这两种住院医师培训类型,外科肿瘤学会网页和机构网页在主要信息类别标准上存在统计学差异。详细标准在机构网页上比在外科肿瘤学会网页上更常见。
对于申请外科肿瘤学住院医师培训的人来说,机构网页提供了最相关的信息,可作为指导住院医师培训申请的主要资源。对于申请乳腺肿瘤学住院医师培训的人来说,外科肿瘤学会网页可作为指导住院医师培训申请的主要资源。外科肿瘤学会网页和机构网页都缺乏关于面试日期的相关信息,这些资源应更新以反映项目亮点以及为申请者提供的相关信息。