Will “Hybrid” Meetings Replace Face-To-Face Meetings Post COVID-19 Era? Perceptions and Views From The Urological Community

Hameed, B. M. Zeeshan; Tanıdır, Yılören; Naik, Nithesh; Teoh, Jeremy Yuen‐Chun; Shah, Milap; Wroclawski, Marcelo Langer; Kunjibettu, Afrah Budnar; Castellani, Daniele; Ibrahim, Sufyan; Silva, Rodrigo Donalisio da; Prasad, Bhavan; Rosette, Jean J.M.C.H. de la; TP, Rajeev; Gauhar, Vineet; Somani, Bhaskar

doi:10.1016/j.urology.2021.02.001

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“…One of the most interesting findings from our feedback analysis was that 68.5% (89/130) of attendees would prefer future traditional conferences to be a hybrid of face‐to‐face and virtual elements, rather than virtual (23.1%) or face‐to‐face (8.5%) alone 3 . A recent international survey of 526 urology providers supports this opinion, with 51% of respondents stating their format of choice for post‐pandemic meetings would be hybrid 4 …”

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“…3 A recent international survey of 526 urology providers supports this opinion, with 51% of respondents stating their format of choice for post-pandemic meetings would be hybrid. 4 There seems to be little doubt that post-pandemic conferences will be hybrid events, but exactly how traditional urology conferences will navigate these changes is unclear. Hybrid conferences may seem like a panacea, but we must design future conferences carefully to benefit from this evolution and avoid the negative aspects of virtual events.…”

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Hybrid urology conferences: using innovation and new approaches

Newman

Green

2021

Trends Urol & Men's Health

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Hybrid urology conferences: using innovation and new approaches

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2021

Trends Urol & Men's Health

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“…The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing medical educators to re-evaluate how to educates learners of all levels [9]. Travel restrictions have brought about a preference towards online meetings in urogenital associations despite the irreplaceability of the face-to-face manner [10]. Therefore, continuing education in the time of social distancing aroused our attentions to social media such as Twitter, which have been widely used in education and conferences sharing among global urogenital communities [11].…”

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Impact of Covid-19 on urogenital online learning through WeChat in China

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Wei

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Background To evaluate the significance of social media and the impacts of Covid-19 on urogenital continuing education in China through WeChat. Methods Backend database from a Chinese urological online learning platform on account of WeChat named Jiujing before and during Covid-19 pandemic were compared and analyzed. An online questionnaire investigation containing 482 respondents was carried out to evaluate the impact of Covid-19 on urological online learning through WeChat. Results During the epidemic of Covid-19, the amounts of national subscribers in Jiujing platform increased by 26.24%, while the constituent ratio of subscribers’ quantity from Hubei province decreased although there were 189 new subscribers, and only surgery video section experienced increased constituent ratio of subscribers’ concerns. Online investigation indicated that most respondents experienced whittled offline learning opportunities and boosted online learning demands during Covid-19 pandemic as online learning was more efficiency, and these attitudes were associated with qualifications of the respondents. Surgery videos and academic lectures were the most popular sections. Preferences of the respondents were determined by gender, title, degree and affiliation hierarchy. Conclusions Even though the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the patterns of online medical education to a certain degree, continuing learning through social media like WeChat is essential and beneficial for urologists. Positional title, affiliation hierarchy and education background are supposed to impact their attitudes towards online learning.

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“…The researches of several medical conferences in 2020 provides clear evidence that changes in medical meetings will have place and live activities need to consider multiple approaches that include technology [18], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28]. Medical community and event organizers already are implementing and looking for new solutions and formats supported by information and communication technologies.…”

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The Pressure of Technological Innovations in Meeting and Event Industry Under the Covid-19 Influence

Bukovska

Mezgaile

Klepers

2021

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The innovation in technologies is one of the principal external forces that has a direct influence on the competitiveness of the meeting and the event industry. Therefore, implementation and adaptation of the new technological solutions in it has continuously followed the innovations in technological industry itself. However, the COVID-19 pandemic with the following lockdowns has pushed the industry to search for new technological alternatives to innovate their way out of the crisis in a very short time period. This was the first time when all the events from small family celebrations and weddings up to the international conferences and product launch events, have had to be cancelled or postponed or could have happened only to a very limited extent and under strict regulations excluding any larger gatherings of people. The event providers were forced to find new solutions to continue their business and not to hibernate with the minimum downtime allowance granted by the state to the employees. Technologies supporting various types of online events became the ultimate digital tool that helped event planners to execute projects from the beginning to the end after March 2020. The purpose of the research is to explore these changes in the usage of the technologies in meetings and events organized in Latvia caused by COVID-19. The quantitative analysis of the structural on-line survey data provides insights on what extent technology adoption in meetings and events businesses has been before and during COVID-19 and what are the future prospects supplemented by the in-depth interview data and qualitative analysis. Authors are investigating what is the amount of virtual and hybrid events organized in Latvia before and after COVID-19, what platforms the organizers used for their virtual events, what is the level of satisfaction and what kind of challenges the event organizers faced in the process of adoption of new technologies. The results of this research not only state the current position within the framework of the industry, but also enriches discussion about the adoption of new technologies to innovate the way out of the crisis and could help in some degree to strengthen the productivity growth in a long term perspective.

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Will “Hybrid” Meetings Replace Face-To-Face Meetings Post COVID-19 Era? Perceptions and Views From The Urological Community

Cited by 40 publications

References 17 publications

Hybrid urology conferences: using innovation and new approaches

Hybrid urology conferences: using innovation and new approaches

Impact of Covid-19 on urogenital online learning through WeChat in China

The Pressure of Technological Innovations in Meeting and Event Industry Under the Covid-19 Influence

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