Pain Medicine Fellowship Program Websites in the United States of America – A Nonparametric Statistic Analysis of 14 Different Criteria

Gupta, Sahil; Palmer, Scott E.; Ferreira‐Dos‐Santos, Guilherme; Hurdle, Mark Friedrich B.

doi:10.2147/jpr.s313513

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“…Our finding that there were no significant differences in website comprehensiveness among the four regions was consistent with many other studies on neurology fellowship websites. 13 , 15 , 22 , 23 Although our study showed that ERAS-participation status influenced website comprehensiveness, a study on pain medicine fellowship websites did not find this result significant. 22 We predict that programs that do not participate in ERAS may not rely on websites to provide information to applicants, as they may prefer different methods of communication.…”

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“… 13 , 15 , 22 , 23 Although our study showed that ERAS-participation status influenced website comprehensiveness, a study on pain medicine fellowship websites did not find this result significant. 22 We predict that programs that do not participate in ERAS may not rely on websites to provide information to applicants, as they may prefer different methods of communication. Future studies can examine the usage and effectiveness of other virtual platforms such as social media by non-ERAS-participating programs and ERAS-participating programs.…”

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“…The list of criteria was chosen based on the criteria that residency applicants found important or the criteria used in previous fellowship and residency studies. 13 – 16 , 20 – 23 These 34 criteria were classified under one of four different categories, which have been used for classification in past studies: program overview, application information, fellow life, and curriculum. 24 …”

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Evaluation of Vascular Neurology Fellowship Websites in the U.S.

Tram,

Amory,

Tosun

2024

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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Objectives Due to the limitations of the Coronavirus disease pandemic, medical applicants have relied on remote means of information, such as a program's website, to decide where to apply. However, studies have shown that many residency and fellowship websites lack information. Vascular neurology fellowship websites have not yet been studied. This study evaluates the availability and accessibility of information on vascular neurology fellowship websites. Methods From 2021 to 2022, a total of 109 U.S. vascular neurology fellowship programs from the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database were investigated to determine whether they had websites. Each website was evaluated on the immediate availability of 34 different criteria, which were deemed important by past studies. These criteria were reviewed under four categories: program overview, application information, fellow life, and curriculum. The comprehensiveness of the information among these different categories were analyzed. Programs were grouped by geographic region and electronic residency application service (ERAS)-participation status and comparisons were made within these groups. Results There were 107 programs with websites (98%). ERAS-participating programs fulfilled more criteria on average than non-participating programs ( P = 0.004). All websites provided information on general descriptions of their programs, but information on board exam pass rates, fellow testimonials, history of the fellowship program, responsibility progression, family and social events, parking availability, and application deadline were provided by less than 25% of websites. Conclusion This study found that there was a large lack of information on vascular neurology fellowship websites, which could be improved to attract more applicants.

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Evaluation of Vascular Neurology Fellowship Websites in the U.S.

Tram,

Amory,

Tosun

2024

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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“…For each recruitment and education variable assessed, outcomes were recorded as the presence or absence of the variable being assessed (►Table 1). [2][3][4][5][6] Web Site Recruitment and Education…”

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“…Although previous analyses have been conducted regarding fellowship Web site quality for other medical specialties, including orthopaedic surgery, 3 vascular surgery, 4 interventional radiology, 5 pain medicine, 6 and functional neurosur-gery, 2 no prior study has evaluated the quality, accessibility, or availability of online information for skull base fellowship programs. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate all currently accessible information pertaining to existing skull base fellowship information repositories (-NASBS/AANS/ARS/ANS) and to evaluate the extent of information available on program-specific Web sites.…”

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Assessing the Quality of Recruitment Information on Skull Base Surgical Fellowship Program Websites

Sung,

Ton,

Brown

et al. 2023

J Neurol Surg B Skull Base

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Introduction: The objective of the present study is to assess website accessibility and information availability for individual fellowship programs listed within the AANS, NASBS, ARS, and ANS fellowship directories. Methods: Lists of all accredited skull base surgical programs were obtained from the AANS and NASBS fellowship directories. Duplications in listed programs were removed, and systematic queries via an online search engine were conducted to identify fellowship websites. From each available website, information pertaining to 24 different variables was collected and organized into two categories – recruitment and education. Results: After excluding duplicates, 113 fellowship programs were identified, of which 99 (87.6%) had accessible websites. Of the 48 listed by the NASBS, direct website links were available for 33 (68.8%), email contacts were accessible for 32 (66.7%) and phone numbers were listed for 6 (12.5%). Of the 39 programs listed by the AANS, none included website links, 38 (97.4%) provided an email contact, and 39 (100%) listed a departmental contact telephone number. Of the 99 total programs, fellowship websites displayed an average of 5.46 (42.0%) of the 13 recruitment features and 4.80 (42.6%) of the 11 education features. Programs in the geographic Northeast were significantly less likely to present information pertaining to recruitment (p=0.023). Furthermore, programs in geographic Northeast and West were significantly less likely to present information focused on surgical training and/or education (p=0.006). Conclusion: Although many skull base fellowship programs have maintained comprehensive program websites, certain critical aspects remain deficient, and some programs provide little to no information.

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