key: cord-0799095-yprkwoxt
authors: Lee, Young-Mee; Park, Hyunmi; Pyun, Sung-Bom; Yoon, Young Wook
title: Enforced format change to medical education webinar during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic
date: 2020-05-28
journal: Korean J Med Educ
DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2020.158
sha: 7ce1082d3f32b3f9f360ff10e16e62dfec3008de
doc_id: 799095
cord_uid: yprkwoxt

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The medical school is tackling these issues by securing a more reliable internet network and providing technology education for faculty members.

The webinar format FAME has been successfully launched and has brought new levels of interest and participation from the faculty members. However, the participants' high level of satisfaction may be due to this anomalous situation with many academic conferences cancelled and social distancing increasing people's communication needs. The lack of time and space constraints and being able to multi-task may have increased the webinar attractiveness. It is uncertain whether the current satisfaction levels will be maintained or if it the educational content will translate to its application in the workplace. It is early to gauge the webinar's educational effectiveness, but promising results can be extrapolated from previous studies showing the educational effectiveness of the webinar platform in professional education of healthcare professionals and medical students [1] . Further studies will be conducted on this new platform forced upon us in these tumultuous times, but with the potential to may deliver positive outcomes in the long run. 

Webinars in higher education and professional training: a meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials