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. 2020 Feb 22;12(2):e7078.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.7078.

Poll Everywhere to Encourage Learner Satisfaction and Participation in Internal Medicine Fellowship Didactics

Sonia Castillo  1 , Laura Thomas  2   3 , Sri Yarlagadda  4 , Yousuf Ahmed  5 , Jessica R Newman  5
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Poll Everywhere to Encourage Learner Satisfaction and Participation in Internal Medicine Fellowship Didactics

Sonia Castillo et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

Active learning improves self-reported engagement and satisfaction in medical education. Audience response systems are one mechanism of encouraging participation, especially in a setting in which learners in varying educational levels are present. Three fellowships participated in this educational quality improvement project where Poll Everywhere® was incorporated into didactics. Attendees were invited to complete a 4-question retrospective pre-post satisfaction survey. Incorporation of the Poll Everywhere® audience response system resulted in a shift in more favorable satisfaction scores and self-perceived attentiveness compared to the pre-intervention responses.

Keywords: audience response; didactics; interactive learning; medical education.

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Conflict of interest statement

Jessica Newman, DO has a copyright to the text "Infectious Diseases Board Review Question Book"

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Figure 1. Pre-intervention survey responses
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Figure 2. Post-intervention survey responses
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