Adapting web-based instruction to residents' knowledge improves learning efficiency: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increased clinical demands and decreased available time accentuate the need for efficient learning in postgraduate medical training. Adapting Web-based learning (WBL) to learners' prior knowledge may improve efficiency.

Objective

We hypothesized that time spent learning would be shorter and test scores not adversely affected for residents who used a WBL intervention that adapted to prior knowledge.

Design

Randomized, crossover trial.

Setting

Academic internal medicine residency program continuity clinic.

Participants

122 internal medicine residents.

Interventions

Four WBL modules on ambulatory medicine were developed in standard and adaptive formats. The adaptive format allowed learners who correctly answered case-based questions to ski

SUBMITTER: Cook DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2517946 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature