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. 2023 Feb;47(2):534-544.
doi: 10.1007/s00268-022-06790-9. Epub 2022 Oct 24.

Online Survey Evaluation of Three Years of European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Educational Webinars as Part of The E-learning Platform

Lieven P Depypere  1   2 , Nuria Novoa  3 , Niccolò Daddi  4 , Jalal Assouad  5 , Apostolos C Agrafiotis  6 , Olivia Lauk  7 , Herbert Decaluwé  8   9 , Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz  10 , Isabelle Opitz  7 , Alessandro Brunelli  11 , Hasan Fevzi Batirel  12
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Online Survey Evaluation of Three Years of European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Educational Webinars as Part of The E-learning Platform

Lieven P Depypere et al. World J Surg. 2023 Feb.

Abstract

Background: E-learning has become an important tool in surgical education in the last decade. The European Society of Thoracic Surgeons launched its e-learning platform in 2013 and started its educational webinars series in 2018. The aim of this paper is to discuss the introduction, evolution and impact of the educational webinars within this e-learning platform.

Methods: Twenty-four English spoken webinars discussing different subdomains in general thoracic surgery (21 expert talks, 2 pro-con debates and 1 multidisciplinary case discussion) were analyzed. An online questionnaire on timing, quality and technical aspects of the webinars was sent to 3012 registrants.

Results: The webinars reached 3128 unique registrants from 76 countries worldwide. The mean number of registrants was 355 with 171 live attendees (48%) and 155 replay watchers (36%). Hundred and twenty-six attendees (13.1% of people who registered for at least 4 webinars) completed the questionnaire. Timing and duration of the webinars were rated "very good" to "excellent" in 78%, and the quality of the webinar content and the expertise of the webinar presenters were rated "very good" to "excellent" in 88% and 90%, respectively. The impact on knowledge and clinical practice was scored with a weighted average of 7.27 out of 10 and 6.79 out of 10, respectively.

Conclusions: The ESTS educational webinars were effective in delivering up-to-date knowledge to almost half of the countries around the globe. The impact of these events on knowledge and clinical practice were rated high. New e-learning tools should be added to the surgical educational curriculum.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Worldwide ESTS educational webinar coverage in May 2021
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Assessment of the webinar content. a Satisfaction with the variety in subjects programmed. b Perceived objectivity of information. c Perceived up-to-date information. d Perceived objectivity of the experts
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Webinar impact. a Perceived impact of the ESTS webinars on your daily practice. b Perceived impact of the ESTS webinars on your thoracic surgery knowledge. c Likelihood to recommend an ESTS webinar to a friend or colleague
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