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ArticleWorld neurosurgery2021

Perception of Neurosurgery Residents and Attendings on Online Webinars During COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications on Future Education.

Ahmed N Al-Ahmari, Abdulrazag M Ajlan, Khalid Bajunaid, Naif M Alotaibi, Husam Al-Habib, Abdulrahman J Sabbagh, Amro F Al-Habib, Saleh S Baeesa

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Ahmed N Al-AhmariDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Abdulrazag M AjlanDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Khalid BajunaidDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Naif M AlotaibiDepartment of Neurosurgery, National Neurosciences Institute, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Husam Al-HabibDepartment of Spine Surgery, Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Medical Group, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Abdulrahman J SabbaghDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Research and Development Unit, Clinical Skills and Simulation Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Amro F Al-HabibDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Saleh S BaeesaDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: sbaeesa@kau.edu.sa.

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backgroundOnline education has provided an important tool to continue medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study aimed to evaluate trainee and attending perceptions of online webinars as an educational tool in neurosurgery.

methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey study. A web-based 19-question survey was distributed to the people who attended the webinar series that was carried out by the Saudi Association of Neurological Surgery from March 29, 2020 to May 31, 2020. Candidates were identified through their registration e-mails. The survey was distributed June 5-8, 2020.

resultsA total of 156 responses were received (survey response rate: 60%). The overall satisfaction rate among residents and attendings (board-certified neurosurgeons) was similar (>80%). However, only 56.4% of attendings reported they were comfortable with online webinars compared with 81.2% of residents (P value <0.0001). Seventy-five percent of residents found online lectures more useful than traditional in-person lectures compared with 52% of attendings (P value = 0.01).

conclusionsOnline educational webinars provide an educational value that can be considered as an adjunct to traditional (in-person) education methods. Among trainees, the satisfaction of neurosurgery webinars was encouraging to consider as an education method. More objective research and progress are required to adopt and refine existing online didactic and neurosurgical teaching tools while creating more engaging future distant learning models.

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PerceptionSurveys and QuestionnairesAdultCOVID-19Education, DistanceEducation, MedicalFemaleForecastingHumansInternship and ResidencyMaleMiddle AgedNeurosurgeryPandemicsCOVID-19NeurosurgeryNeurosurgical residentsOnline teachingPostgraduate medical educationSurveyWebinars

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PMID33181378
PMCPMC9760247

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