Abstract: PO1060
Nephrology Education Needs Assessment: Five Years and a Pandemic Later
Session Information
- Educational Research
November 04, 2021 | Location: On-Demand, Virtual Only
Abstract Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Category: Educational Research
- 800 Educational Research
Authors
- Ko, Benjamin S., University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Rope, Rob, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States
- Pivert, Kurtis, American Society of Nephrology, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Burgner, Anna Marie, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Waitzman, Joshua S., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Halbach, Susan M., Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Boyle, Suzanne, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Chan, Lili, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
- Shah, Hitesh H., Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York, United States
- Sozio, Stephen M., Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Background
We sought to identify how educational tools utilized in nephrology training had evolved in the past 5 years and through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods
Questions about educational tools were distributed as part of ASN’s annual nephrology fellow survey to 920 current adult/pediatric fellows.
Results
511 fellows participated in 2021 (56% response rate), compared with 377 fellows in 2016 (31% response rate). Fellows indicated that UpToDate was still the most used (82%) and most effective educational tool (66% rated it “Very Effective”); however, ASN KSAP increased in popularity (27% in 2016, 58% 2021) and was also highly rated (65% Very Effective). Use of online resource and social media increased, including both new opportunities and prior available ones such as NephJC (7% to 32%, with 46% rated Very Effective) (Figure 1). A majority of fellows (84%) rated their education as good or excellent in 2021, a percentage similar to 2016 (81%).
Conclusion
Our follow-up assessment of nephrology fellows’ educational tools found an increase in the adoption of online resources with similar effectiveness ratings as traditional resources.
Figure 1: Educational Tools Used by Nephrology Fellows in 2016 and 2021 (left) and Percentage 2021 Nephrology Fellows Ranking Tools as Very Effective (right).