Lessons Learned from Developing Digital Teaching Modules for Medical Student Education in Neurosurgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
- (Interactive) figures and illustrative cases apparently foster students’ engagement with the content of the DTM; and
- To obtain valuable feedback from students, it is advised to offer low-threshold communication channels. These include a scoring option for each DTM, open survey questions, and provision of the e-mail address of a correspondent academic staff member.
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Topic | Average Evaluation | Number of Evaluations | Number of Accesses | Number of Figures | Number of Inter-Active Figures * | Number of Questions | Number of Cases | Number of Linked Papers |
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Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage | 4.5 | 13 | 90 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Impairment of Consciousness | 4.5 | 11 | 162 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
Elective Neurosurgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic | 4.0 | 7 | 77 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Fluorescence-Guided Glioma Surgery | 1.0 | 5 | 85 | 0 ** | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Intracranial Pressure | 5.0 | 13 | 98 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
Brain Death | 4.0 | 7 | 126 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Hydrocephalus | 4.5 | 11 | 134 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lumbar Disc Hernia | 4.0 | 8 | 109 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
Cervical Disc Hernia | 5.0 | 7 | 91 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Module Popularity Measure | Number of Figures per Module | Number of Interactive Figures per Module | Number of Cases per Module | Number of Questions per Module | Number of Linked Papers per Module |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of accesses per module | 0.4 (0.286) | 0.25 (0.5147) | −0.09 (0.8153) | 0.34 (0.3692) | −0.13 (0.7354) |
Number of evaluations per module | 0.78 (0.0137) * | −0.01 (0.9762) | 0.19 (0.6294) | 0.29 (0.4465) | −0.43 (0.2449) |
Average evaluation per module | 0.85 (0.0037) * | 0.45 (0.2232) | 0 (1) | 0.17 (0.6653) | −0.62 (0.0743) |
Feedback Channel | Threshold | Feedback Quantity | Feedback Quality |
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Scoring bar | (+) | (+++) | (+++) |
Survey, closed questions | (+++) | (++) | (+) |
Survey, open questions | (++) | (+) | (++) |
Individual response by e-mail | (++) | (+) | (++) |
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Rupa, R.; Pojskic, M.; Nimsky, C.; Voellger, B. Lessons Learned from Developing Digital Teaching Modules for Medical Student Education in Neurosurgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Healthcare 2021, 9, 1141. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091141
Rupa R, Pojskic M, Nimsky C, Voellger B. Lessons Learned from Developing Digital Teaching Modules for Medical Student Education in Neurosurgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Healthcare. 2021; 9(9):1141. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091141
Chicago/Turabian StyleRupa, Rosita, Mirza Pojskic, Christopher Nimsky, and Benjamin Voellger. 2021. "Lessons Learned from Developing Digital Teaching Modules for Medical Student Education in Neurosurgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic" Healthcare 9, no. 9: 1141. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091141