Emergency Medicine Virtual Conference Participants' Engagement with Competing Activities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Residency didactic conferences transitioned to a virtual format during the COVID-19 pandemic. This format creates questions about effective educational practices, which depend on learner engagement. In this study we sought to characterize the competitive demands for learner attention during virtual didactics and to pilot methodology for future studies.

Methods

This was a prospective, observational, cohort study of attendees at virtual didactics from a single emergency medicine residency, which employed a self-report strategy informed by validated classroom assessments of student engagement. We deployed an online, two-question survey polling across six conference days using random signaled sampling. Participants reported all activities during the preceding five m

SUBMITTER: Khamees D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782122 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature