The Effect of Paging Reminders on Fellowship Conference Attendance: A Multi-Program Randomized Crossover Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Educational conferences have long served as a foundation of medical education. Sending reminder text pages prior to the start of conferences is a method that may be employed to enhance conference attendance.

Objective

The goal of our study was to determine if routine text paging before regularly scheduled conferences improves attendance among fellows in 3 internal medicine programs.

Methods

A prospective, randomized, crossover study included 3 fellowship programs: pulmonary and critical care, cardiovascular disease, and hematology-oncology. The study was performed between October 2014 and March 2015. All fellows were included and randomized to 1 of 2 groups (with subsequent crossover to opposite group): Pages or No Pages. Paging reminders, which included co

SUBMITTER: Smith J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936855 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature