TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and implementation of an asynchronous emergency medicine residency curriculum using a web-based platform
AU - Kornegay, Joshua G.
AU - Leone, Katrina A.
AU - Wallner, Clare
AU - Hansen, Matthew
AU - Yarris, Lalena
PY - 2016/3/7
Y1 - 2016/3/7
N2 - The Residency Review Committee in Emergency Medicine requires residency programs to deliver at least 5 hours of weekly didactics. Achieving at least a 70 % average attendance rate per resident is required for residency program accreditation, and is used as a benchmark for residency graduation in our program. We developed a web-based, asynchronous curriculum to replace 1 hour of synchronous didactics, and hypothesized that the curriculum would be feasible to implement, well received by learners, and improve conference participation. This paper describes the feasibility and learner acceptability of a longitudinal asynchronous curriculum, and describes its impact on postgraduate year-1(PGY-1) resident conference participation and annual in-training examination scores. Using formal curriculum design methods, we developed modules and paired assessment exercises to replace 1 hour of weekly didactics. We measured feasibility (development and implementation time and costs) and learner acceptability (measured on an anonymous survey). We compared pre- and post-intervention conference participation and in-service training examination scores using a two sample t test. The asynchronous curriculum proved feasible to develop and implement. PGY-1 resident conference participation improved compared to the pre-intervention year (85.6 vs. 62 %; 95 % CI 0.295–0.177; p <0.001). We are unable to detect a difference between in-training examination results in either the PGY-1 group or across all residents by the introduction of this intervention. 18/31 (58 %) residents completed the post-intervention survey. 83 % reported satisfaction with curriculum changes. Strengths of the curriculum included clarity and timeliness of assignments. Weaknesses included technical difficulties with the online platform. Our curriculum is feasible to develop and implement. Despite technical difficulties, residents report high satisfaction with this new curriculum. Among PGY-1 residents there is improved conference participation compared to the prior year.
AB - The Residency Review Committee in Emergency Medicine requires residency programs to deliver at least 5 hours of weekly didactics. Achieving at least a 70 % average attendance rate per resident is required for residency program accreditation, and is used as a benchmark for residency graduation in our program. We developed a web-based, asynchronous curriculum to replace 1 hour of synchronous didactics, and hypothesized that the curriculum would be feasible to implement, well received by learners, and improve conference participation. This paper describes the feasibility and learner acceptability of a longitudinal asynchronous curriculum, and describes its impact on postgraduate year-1(PGY-1) resident conference participation and annual in-training examination scores. Using formal curriculum design methods, we developed modules and paired assessment exercises to replace 1 hour of weekly didactics. We measured feasibility (development and implementation time and costs) and learner acceptability (measured on an anonymous survey). We compared pre- and post-intervention conference participation and in-service training examination scores using a two sample t test. The asynchronous curriculum proved feasible to develop and implement. PGY-1 resident conference participation improved compared to the pre-intervention year (85.6 vs. 62 %; 95 % CI 0.295–0.177; p <0.001). We are unable to detect a difference between in-training examination results in either the PGY-1 group or across all residents by the introduction of this intervention. 18/31 (58 %) residents completed the post-intervention survey. 83 % reported satisfaction with curriculum changes. Strengths of the curriculum included clarity and timeliness of assignments. Weaknesses included technical difficulties with the online platform. Our curriculum is feasible to develop and implement. Despite technical difficulties, residents report high satisfaction with this new curriculum. Among PGY-1 residents there is improved conference participation compared to the prior year.
KW - Asynchronous curriculum
KW - E-learning
KW - Emergency medicine education
KW - Individualized interactive
KW - Instruction
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U2 - 10.1007/s11739-016-1418-6
DO - 10.1007/s11739-016-1418-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 26951187
AN - SCOPUS:84960109372
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Internal and Emergency Medicine
JF - Internal and Emergency Medicine
SN - 1828-0447
ER -