Web-Based Continuing Medical Education in Korean and Foreign Orthopaedic Societies

Dae Jung Choi; Myung Ja Jin; Young Sung Lee; Gil Won Kang

doi:10.4055/jkoa.2013.48.2.111

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Choi, Jin, Lee, and Kang: Web-Based Continuing Medical Education in Korean and Foreign Orthopaedic Societies

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association

Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 2013; 48(2): 111-117.

Published online: 25 April 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4055/jkoa.2013.48.2.111

Web-Based Continuing Medical Education in Korean and Foreign Orthopaedic Societies

Dae Jung Choi, M.D.^*, Myung Ja Jin, M.P.H., Young Sung Lee, M.D., Gil Won Kang, M.D.

Department of Health Informatics and Management, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.

^*Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jinju Barun Hospital, Jinju, Korea.

Correspondence to: Dae Jung Choi, M.D. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jinju Barun Hospital, 7 Dongjin-ro, Jinju 660-987, Korea. TEL: +82-55-790-3000, FAX: +82-55-790-3030, djchoi9@hanmail.net

Received 13 January 2013 Revised 6 February 2013 Accepted 8 February 2013

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose

The current states of web-contents for continuing medical education (CME) of domestic and foreign orthropaedic web sites were investigated.

Materials and Methods

Korean Orthopaedic Association (KOA) and Korean Orthopaedic Cyber-Society (KOC) as domestic, and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgerns (AAOS), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS), AOSpine, and Arthroscopy as foreign web sites were searched in view of provided information technology (IT), including electrical paper (ePDF), lecture and surgical procedure video clips, case discussion, interactive content, and CME credit program.

Results

KOA supplied 19 types of ePDFs, and KOC, 43 video clips, and 217 case discussions. However, only one video clip was updated from 2011 to 2012 and 20 video clips from 2008 were not accessible. AAOS provided one type of ePDF, 142 lecture and 570 surgical procedure video clips, five interactive CME programs and 107 CME credit programs. In JBJS, one kind of ePDF, 97 video clips, 24 case discussions, and 37 CME credit programs were provided. In AOSpine, 12 types of ePDFs, 994 video clips, one interactive content, and 347 case discussions were provided. In Arthroscopy, one type of ePDF and 126 video clips were supplied. All web-contents were available.

Conclusion

A large number of better quality web-contents and web-based CME credit programs should be implemented with standardized IT for Web-based CME in domestic orthropaedic societies.

Keywords: web-contents, information technology, web-based education, continuing medical education

Figures and Tables

Table 1

Compared Numbers of Video-Typed Contents Updated on Years

^*Numbers of contents during two years (2009 to 2010, 2011 to 2012). ^†Numbers of contents during three years (2010 to 2012). KOC, Korean Orthopaedic Cyber-Society; AAOS, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons; JBJS, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery; AOSPINE, AOSpine; Arthroscopy, The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery.

Table 2

Service Assessment of Web-Contents Available on the Domestic and Foreign Orthropaedic Web Sites

^*Twenty (46.5%) of 43 video clips were not accessible even in desktop Microsoft platform. ^†Total video clips included 520 video clips of surgical procedures with wireless accessibility and 142 lecture video clips, unavailable to wireless access due to the Flash-typed format. ^‡They were interactive CME programs. KOA, Korean Orthopaedic Association; KOC, Korean Orthopaedic Cyber-Society; AAOS, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons; JBJS, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery; AOSPINE, AOSpine; Arthroscopy, The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery; CME, continuing medical education.

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