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Blended Learning Is a Feasible and Effective Tool for Basic Pediatric Spinal Deformity Training
Study Design:
Descriptive study.
Objective:
Assessing the applicability of blended learning to specific domains of
spine surgery.
Methods:
After the needs assessment, a blended pediatric spine deformity course
program was designed. A total of 33 participants, including orthopedic
and neurosurgeons, registered for the course and all of them completed
an online entrance quiz. Thus, they were eligible to have online part of
course, which included the theoretical part of the course and also a
discussion forum where the discussions about the topics facilitated by
faculty. Thirteen of 33 subjects participated second part of the blended
pediatric spine deformity course. This face-to-face (F2F) part consisted
of case discussions for each topic and discussions facilitated by
faculty members. The same quiz was also taken before and after the F2F
part. All quiz results were compared statistically.
Results:
There were 11 lectures within the online part and 6 case discussions in
the F2F part. The quiz scores were improved significantly by having a
complete blended pediatric deformity course (P < .05).
Conclusions:
The current study has demonstrated that blended learning format,
including online and F2F, is feasible and effective in training for a
domain of spine surgery, pediatric deformity in this specific context