Abstract

Aims & Objectives: Pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) fellows must provide acute, complex clinical care while addressing numerous knowledge gaps, and so may particularly benefit from online educational support. Limited data illustrate the e-learning behaviors or interests of PCCM fellows specifically. Such information may help guide design and targeting of educational interventions. To explore this, we characterized PCCM fellow usage of OPENPediatrics, a worldwide open-access e-learning resource, from June 2018 through June 2019. Methods: IRB-approved retrospective analysis of automatically collected activity log data from users who self-identified as PCCM fellows. The most popular resources (based on percent of fellows who accessed the resource) are reported. Timestamps were used to calculate the duration of time spent by individual users on the website. Results: 299 fellows from 39 countries were included. The distribution of time spent on the site was bimodal, with 105/299 (35%) of users logging <=60 minutes on the site in the analyzed interval, and 100/299 (33%) logging >=240 minutes (Figure 1). These users accessed an average of 9 resources on the site (range 1-89). Table 1 reports the most frequently accessed resources by this cohort of users.Conclusions: The majority of PCCM fellows spent at least 30 minutes on the site. Over 33% of included fellows spent >=4 hours using the site in one year. Courses and simulators were especially popular. Specific popular items included PCCM fellowship-specific curricula, materials for cardiology and congenital heart disease, and interactive online simulators teaching mechanical ventilation and hemodialysis. Our findings can help shape educational interventions and strategies for PCCM fellows.

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