Rise of public e-learning opportunities in the context of COVID-19 pandemic-induced curtailment of face-to-face courses, exemplified by epidural catheterization on YouTube.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, countless face-to-face events as well as medical trainings were cancelled or moved to online courses, which resulted in increased digitalization in many areas. In the context of medical education, videos provide tremendous benefit for visualizing skills before they are practised.

Methods

Based on a previous investigation of video material addressing epidural catheterization available on the YouTube platform, we aimed to investigate new content produced in the context of the pandemic. Thus, a video search was conducted in May 2022.

Results

We identified twelve new videos since the pandemic with a significant improvement in the new content in terms of procedural items (p = 0.03) compared to the prepandemic video con

SUBMITTER: Flinspach AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10240447 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature