Information availability on emergency radiology fellowship websites: current state and paths to improvement

Vice Chair for Education: Twelve Roles to Provide a Framework for Success

“…The VCEd should lead a collaborative effort to provide the educational mission and vision statements. The website should emphasize the many facets of medical student, resident and fellowship training programs as well as departmental CME and faculty clinical educator programs (52,53). Links to departmental and institutional resources that may be appealing to a broad range of potential applicants are also useful, such as (1) the institutional Graduate Medical Education website, (2) educational opportunities at affiliated medical schools, business schools, schools of public health and other graduate schools, (3) research opportunities including internal grants and travel stipends, (4) leadership development options, (5) global health projects, (6) support for innovation, and (7) a wide range of committees and interest groups.…”

Qualitative assessment of online information available on accredited head and neck surgery fellowship programs

“…Institutional web site scores were largely consistent; however, the programs in the Western United States had a median score of 5.5 (4-13) (Table 3). The median number of criteria represented on at least one online resource for each program was 12 (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16). This was true across all geographic regions (Table 3).…”

“…There is a growing body of literature concerned with the utility of information presented on fellowship and residency program web sites, both in otolaryngology 3,4 and in other specialties 5–11 . Moreover, several recent studies have identified factors important to fellowship applicants in a variety of otolaryngology subspecialties 12–14 .…”

“…There is a growing body of literature concerned with the utility of information presented on fellowship and residency program web sites, both in otolaryngology 3,4 and in other specialties. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Moreover, several recent studies have identified factors important to fellowship applicants in a variety of otolaryngology subspecialties. [12][13][14] The present study aims to determine whether this information is readily available through the AHNS program directory and head and neck surgery fellowship web sites.…”