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authors: Hebdon, Lara; Kotecha, Deeya
title: Response to “Evaluating the Usefulness and Acceptability of a Revision-Purposed ‘Specialties’ Webinar for Educating UK-Based Fifth and Final Year Medical Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is This the Future of Medical Education?” – Medical Student Perspective [Letter]
date: 2021-09-24
journal: Adv Med Educ Pract
DOI: 10.2147/amep.s336774
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doc_id: 935807
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improve final examination scores. 3 Moreover, running separate sessions could have enabled a cycle of improvement by implementation of student feedback. Utilising such feedback has been shown to lead to overall course improvement and higher average ratings for instructors. 4 In conclusion, Cooper et al 1 have provided a useful insight into the benefits of delivering webinar-based revision material. However, the content could have been better tailored to student needs through the inclusion of additional questions in the pre-course questionnaire and use of the polling function. Whilst the authors focused on quantitative analysis, it would have been interesting to see greater inclusion of free-text questions with thematic content analysis to allow an understanding of the reasoning behind student responses. In addition, dividing the course into separate sessions would not only have reduced student fatigue but also allowed for spaced repetition and active recall.

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