Farooq Muhammad Zain, Daniyal Muhammad, Qasim Palvisha, Jamshed Houria, Memon Shehzeen Fatima, Salman Yumna, Sayeed Bushra Zafar, Abbasi Maham, Jaglal Michael
Department of Hematology/Oncology- Moffitt Cancer Center. Fellow at University of South Florida, 525 South Lincoln Avenue, Unit B102, Tampa, FL, 3360, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, United Medical and Dental College, UMDC Road, Sector 48H Korangi Creek, Karachi, Pakistan.
Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2022 Jul 1;80:104079. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104079. eCollection 2022 Aug.
The growing demand for Hematology and Oncology services has greatly piqued the interest of potential residents towards this specialty. Since the programs' official websites are now becoming the primary source of information that potential residents turn to, we aimed to analyze program websites' content and availability across parameters that have been used by evaluators of websites.
& Materials: A list of 181 fellowship programs were identified using The Fellowship and Residency Electronic and Interactive Database (FRIEDA). 160/181 were accessed via a hyperlink or Google search. Content of these websites was evaluated on a 40-point criteria system in 10 distinct domains. Websites without accessible links were excluded from the search.
The 160 programs were divided based on the region with the North-East having the most programs (32.5%) and the West having the least programs (12.4%). Exactly 3/4th of the websites had been updated with the latest available information. "Program overview" (89%) was the most common domain present on the websites while "Alumni" was the least common, present on only (25%) of the websites.
When compared with previous similar research, there have been a few significant improvements across the programs' websites, however many still lack important information regarding certain domains. The content and availability of the program's website can encourage or deter an applicant, in their decision to apply to the program, hence making it necessary for programs to augment their websites.
血液学和肿瘤学服务需求的不断增长极大地激发了潜在住院医师对该专业的兴趣。由于项目的官方网站现在正成为潜在住院医师获取信息的主要来源，我们旨在分析项目网站在网站评估者所使用的各项参数方面的内容和可用性。
使用住院医师和研究员电子及互动数据库（FRIEDA）确定了181个研究员项目名单。通过超链接或谷歌搜索访问了其中160/181个项目。这些网站的内容根据一个40分的标准体系在10个不同领域进行评估。没有可访问链接的网站被排除在搜索范围之外。
160个项目按地区划分，东北地区的项目最多（32.5%），西部地区的项目最少（12.4%）。恰好四分之三的网站更新了最新可用信息。“项目概述”（89%）是网站上最常见的领域，而“校友”是最不常见的，仅在25%的网站上出现。
与之前的类似研究相比，各项目网站有了一些显著改进，但许多网站在某些领域仍缺乏重要信息。项目网站的内容和可用性会影响申请人申请该项目的决定，因此项目有必要扩充其网站。
