Jefferson Health New Jersey, Department of Emergency Medicine, Jefferson Washington Township Hospital, Sewell, New Jersey, USA.
Public Health Foundation, Washington, DC, USA.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Sep 5;17:e285. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2022.220.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic dramatically accelerated a growing trend toward online and asynchronous education and professional training, including in the disaster medicine and public health sector. This study analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the growth of the TRAIN Learning Network (TRAIN) for the year 2020 and evaluated pandemic-related changes in use patterns by disaster and public health professionals.
The TRAIN database was queried to determine the change in the number of registered users, total courses completed, and courses completed related to COVID-19 during 2020.
In 2020, a total of 755,222 new users joined the platform - nearly 3 times the average added annually over the preceding 5 y (2015-2019). TRAIN users completed 3,259,074 training courses in 2020, more than double the average number of training courses that were completed annually from 2015-2019. In addition, 17.8% of all newly added disaster and public health training courses in 2020 were specifically related to COVID-19.
Online education provided by TRAIN is a critical tool for just-in-time disaster health training following a disaster event or public health emergency, including in a global health crisis such as a pandemic.
2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行极大地加速了在线和异步教育及专业培训的增长趋势，包括灾害医学和公共卫生领域。本研究分析了 COVID-19 大流行对 2020 年 TRAIN 学习网络（TRAIN）增长的影响，并评估了灾害和公共卫生专业人员在使用模式方面与大流行相关的变化。
查询 TRAIN 数据库，以确定 2020 年注册用户数量、完成的总课程数以及与 COVID-19 相关的课程完成情况的变化。
2020 年，共有 755,222 名新用户加入该平台，几乎是过去 5 年（2015-2019 年）平均每年新增用户的 3 倍。TRAIN 用户在 2020 年完成了 3,259,074 门培训课程，是 2015-2019 年每年完成的培训课程数量的两倍多。此外，2020 年新增的灾害和公共卫生培训课程中，有 17.8%是专门与 COVID-19 相关的。
TRAIN 提供的在线教育是在灾害事件或公共卫生紧急情况后进行即时灾害健康培训的重要工具，包括在全球卫生危机（如大流行）期间。
