TY - JOUR
T1 - Radiation Oncology Virtual Education Rotation (ROVER) 2.0 for Residents
T2 - Implementation and Outcomes
AU - Sandhu, Navjot K.
AU - Rahimy, Elham
AU - Hutten, Ryan
AU - Shukla, Utkarsh
AU - Rajkumar-Calkins, Anne
AU - Miller, Jacob A.
AU - Von Eyben, Rie
AU - Deig, Christopher R.
AU - Obeid, Jean Pierre
AU - Jimenez, Rachel B.
AU - Fields, Emma C.
AU - Pollom, Erqi L.
AU - Kahn, Jenna M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s) under exclusive licence to American Association for Cancer Education.
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the integration of a virtual education curriculum to support radiation oncologists in training. We report outcomes from Radiation Oncology Virtual Education Rotation (ROVER) 2.0, a supplementary virtual educational curriculum created for radiation oncology residents globally. A prospective cohort of residents completed surveys before and after the live virtual webinar sessions (pre- and post-surveys, respectively). Live sessions were structured as complex gray-zone cases across various core disease sites. Resident demographics and responses were summarized using means, standard deviations, and proportions. Nine ROVER sessions were held from October 2020 to June 2021. A total of 1487 registered residents completed the pre-survey, of which 786 attended the live case discussion and 223 completed post-surveys. A total of 479 unique radiation oncology residents (of which 95, n = 19.8%, were international attendees) from 147 institutions (national, n = 81, 55.1%; international, n = 66, 44.9%) participated in the sessions. There was similar participation across post-graduate year (PGY) 2 through 5 (range n = 86 to n = 105). Of the 122 unique resident post-surveys, nearly all reported learning through the virtual structure as “very easy” or “easy” (97.5%, n = 119). A majority rated the ROVER 2.0 educational sessions to be “valuable or “very valuable” (99.2%, n = 121), and the panelists-attendee interaction as “appropriate” (97.5%, n = 119). Virtual live didactics aimed at radiation oncology residents are feasible. These results suggest that the adoption of the ROVER 2.0 curricula may help improve radiation oncology resident education.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the integration of a virtual education curriculum to support radiation oncologists in training. We report outcomes from Radiation Oncology Virtual Education Rotation (ROVER) 2.0, a supplementary virtual educational curriculum created for radiation oncology residents globally. A prospective cohort of residents completed surveys before and after the live virtual webinar sessions (pre- and post-surveys, respectively). Live sessions were structured as complex gray-zone cases across various core disease sites. Resident demographics and responses were summarized using means, standard deviations, and proportions. Nine ROVER sessions were held from October 2020 to June 2021. A total of 1487 registered residents completed the pre-survey, of which 786 attended the live case discussion and 223 completed post-surveys. A total of 479 unique radiation oncology residents (of which 95, n = 19.8%, were international attendees) from 147 institutions (national, n = 81, 55.1%; international, n = 66, 44.9%) participated in the sessions. There was similar participation across post-graduate year (PGY) 2 through 5 (range n = 86 to n = 105). Of the 122 unique resident post-surveys, nearly all reported learning through the virtual structure as “very easy” or “easy” (97.5%, n = 119). A majority rated the ROVER 2.0 educational sessions to be “valuable or “very valuable” (99.2%, n = 121), and the panelists-attendee interaction as “appropriate” (97.5%, n = 119). Virtual live didactics aimed at radiation oncology residents are feasible. These results suggest that the adoption of the ROVER 2.0 curricula may help improve radiation oncology resident education.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Radiation Oncology
KW - Resident Education
KW - Virtual Education
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U2 - 10.1007/s13187-022-02216-1
DO - 10.1007/s13187-022-02216-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85137786214
SN - 0885-8195
VL - 38
SP - 977
EP - 984
JO - Journal of Cancer Education
JF - Journal of Cancer Education
IS - 3
ER -