Web-based Radiology Subspecialty Training Program: Pilot Feasibility and Effectiveness Analysis on Ethiopian Radiologists.
Rationale and Objectives: To investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of a novel web-based radiology subspecialty training program.Materials and Methods: Ten Ethiopian general radiologists were enrolled; each participant selected two out of four available subspecialty training programs includin...
| Publicado en: | Academic Radiology Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 293 - 300 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Feb2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=141381002&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 141381002 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10766332 T4X jtl: Academic Radiology issn: 10766332 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2020 vid: 27 iid: 2 pid: 467 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 141381002 141381002 NLM31060981 141381002 10.1016/j.acra.2019.02.025 NLM31060981 141381002 ppf: 293 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: Web-based Radiology Subspecialty Training Program: Pilot Feasibility and Effectiveness Analysis on Ethiopian Radiologists. aug: au: Haj-Mirzaian, Arya Sethi, Nikita de Francesca, Brian Sahni, Sumedha Zaheer, Atif affil: Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA sug: subj: Internship and Residency Specialties, Medical Education Human Pilot Studies Internet Validation Studies Comparative Studies Evaluation Research Multicenter Studies ab: Rationale and Objectives: To investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of a novel web-based radiology subspecialty training program.Materials and Methods: Ten Ethiopian general radiologists were enrolled; each participant selected two out of four available subspecialty training programs including abdominal imaging, neuroradiology, chest imaging, and musculoskeletal imaging. Participants were trained simultaneously in 4-stages over 20-months remotely. The program contains online lectures (previously recorded), online interactive case reviews, learning modules, and one-month observership at Johns Hopkins University. Each subspecialty training program consisted of nearly 50 recorded lectures, 26 case reviews, and 40 modules, all provided by subspecialty-trained radiology faculty. Trainees were evaluated using pre- and postcourse multiple choice questions, and the effectiveness of the program was assessed by comparing pre- and postcourse performances using paired t test or Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Regression analysis was conducted to determine the association between the magnitude of score change and trainees' age and years after graduation.Results: All programs including abdominal imaging (p < 0.001), neuroradiology (p < 0.001), chest imaging (p: 0.001), and musculoskeletal imagining (p = 0.001) led to significant improvements in participants' knowledge (overall mean ± standard deviation of score change: +18.4% ± 11.4%). All stages of training including stage-1 (+29.3% ± 8.4%), stage-2 (+21.0% ± 8.0%), stage-3 (+15.0% ± 13.7%), and stage-4 (+17.0% ± 7.9%) significantly improved trainees' scores; and the percent score change decreased with each stage. Regression analysis revealed that score improvement was not associated with age and years after residency training.Conclusion: Our newly developed web-based radiology subspecialty training program results in improved knowledge of radiologists. Implementation of web-based subspecialty training could be an effective and feasible method for institutions without subspecialty faculty and programs. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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