Accepted Type
Oral
Code
OH1-1-2
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Research
Will the presenter be a:
Jr. Faculty (less than 5 years in practice)
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
The COVID CPD Landscape: Market Research and Insights for Planning Programmatic Offerings
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
The COVID Pandemic forced CPD offices to begin to enact the recommendations of The Future of Medical Education in Canada- CPD (FMEC-CPD; Campbell & Sisler, 2019). In a rapid series of events stemming from the inability to hold in-person programming, CPD offices hurriedly transitioned to an online paradigm, well outside their comfort zone. This study is a chronicle of one office's lessons learned.
Methods
This mixed-methods market research and program evaluation consolidates a program of anonymous surveys taking place pre/post program (15 webinars/6 asynchronous modules) CPD offerings totaling 2784 respondents at Queen's University. The surveys asked Likert, demographic (age, gender, practice location, health profession), and market research open-ended questions relating to learner preference, comfort, knowledge gain, barriers to practice, and intent to change metrics. These were analyzed thematically using ATLAS.ti and using inferential statistics (SPSS).
Results
Our thematic findings show learners increasingly adapting to online learning. Learners reported preferring asynchronous as compared to the same duration of online synchronous learning. The analyses of pre-post responses showed that asynchronous offerings resulted in greater change metrics than asynchronous programing. Learners across professions tended to select programs with similar reasoning: upfront topic relevance, involving a member my profession, time-conservative, and reacting badly to biased or non-compelling speakers and topics.
Conclusion
CPD offices must continue to learn from their successes and failures and we will need to decide whether we will be biding our time to return to in-person primary programming or elect to embrace the possibilities afforded to us by the pandemic-shifted paradigm.
Keyword 1
CPD
Keyword 2
COVID-19
Keyword 3
Future of Medical Education
Level of Training
CPD (faculty development, CME)
Abstract Themes
Continuing Medical Education
Additional Theme (First choice)
Faculty Development
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Inter-professional Education
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Professionalism
Authors
Presenter
Eleftherios Soleas
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
