Physicians' attitude towards webinars and online education amid COVID-19 pandemic: When less is more
Since the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, all scientific medical activities were shifted to an online format, in the form of webinars, to maintain continuing medical education (CME). We aimed to assess physicians' attitude among different medical specialties towards this sudden and unexp...
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| description | Since the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, all scientific medical activities were shifted to an online format, in the form of webinars, to maintain continuing medical education (CME). We aimed to assess physicians' attitude among different medical specialties towards this sudden and unexpected shift of traditional face-to-face meetings into webinars, and to suggest future recommendations.
We conducted a cross-sectional, internet-based survey study using a 25-item questionnaire, from November 1 and November 15, 2020. The survey was created and distributed to physicians from different medical and surgical specialties and from different countries via several social media platforms, using a snowball technique.
A total of 326 physicians responded; 165 (50.6%) were females, mean age of responders was 38.7 ± 7.5 years. The majority of responses (93.2%) came from Arab countries. Of them, 195 (59.8%) reported attending more webinars compared to the same period last year, with average of 3 per month. As regard to the general impression; 244 (74.8%) were "strongly satisfied" or "satisfied", with the most satisfaction for "training courses: by 268 (82.2%), and "International conferences" by 218 (66.9%). However, 246 respondents (75.5%) felt overwhelmed with the number and frequency of webinars during the pandemic, 171 (52.5%) reported attending less than 25% of webinars they are invited to, 205 (62.8%) disagreed that webinars can replace in-person meetings after the pandemic, and 239 (73.3%) agreed that online meetings need proper regulations.
Webinars comprised a major avenue for education during COVID-19 pandemic, with initial general satisfaction among physicians. However, this paradigm shift was sudden and lacked proper regulations. Despite initial satisfaction, the majority of physicians felt overwhelmed with the number and frequency of webinars. Physicians' satisfaction is crucial in planning future educational activities, and considering that this current crisis will most likely have long lasting effects, webinars should be viewed as complementing traditional in-person methods, rather than replacement. In this study, we are suggesting recommendations to help future regulation of this change. |
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| subjects | Adult Attitude of Health Personnel Attitudes Biology and Life Sciences CAI Computer and Information Sciences Computer assisted instruction Conferences Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - epidemiology COVID-19 - psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Data analysis Education, Distance - methods Education, Distance - trends Education, Medical - methods Education, Medical, Continuing Educational aspects Epidemics Female Format Humans International conferences Internet Investigations Kuwait Kuwait - epidemiology Male Medical education Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences Meetings Methodology Middle Aged Neurology Neuropsychiatry Online education Pandemics People and Places Pharmaceutical industry Physicians Physicians - psychology Polls & surveys Questionnaires Research and Analysis Methods SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification Seminars Social networks Social Sciences Surveys Surveys and Questionnaires Telemedicine Videoconferencing Viral diseases Viruses Visualization |
| title | Physicians' attitude towards webinars and online education amid COVID-19 pandemic: When less is more |
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