Evaluation of a web-based portal to improve resident education by neonatology fellows

Evaluation of a web-based portal to improve resident education by neonatology fellows

Background Integration of web-based educational tools into medical training has been shown to increase accessibility of resources and optimize teaching. We developed a web-based educational portal (WBEP) to support teaching of pediatric residents about newborn medicine by neonatology fellows. Objectives 1) To compare residents' attitudes about their fellow-led education in the NICU pre- and pos...

Fellows as teachers: a model to enhance pediatric resident education

OBJECTIVE Pressures on academic faculty to perform beyond their role as educators has stimulated interest in complementary approaches in resident medical education. While fellows are often believed to detract from resident learning and experience, we describe our preliminary investigations utilizing clinical fellows as a positive force in pediatric resident education. Our objectives were to imp...

A Web-Based Portal For Information Security Education

Today’s organizations have become so dependant on information resources that even the effects of a single information security incident could be devastating. Increasing Information Security awareness is the most costeffective control that an organization can implement. However, most organizations do not have the necessary financial or knowledge resources needed for a comprehensive awareness edu...

Comparing Resident Evaluation of Attending Surgeons to Attendings Self-Evaluation

Introduction. Studying the educational situation of surgery residents according to the perspective of residents and attending surgeons could lead to recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of their education and also to evaluating faculty performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the residents' viewpoints on evaluating their attending surgeons and compare the obtained results wit...

Usability Evaluation of a Health Web Portal