How Webinars Serve The Medical Profession

Can Webinar Learning Help Doctors During Coronavirus Pandemic?

With the wonderful world of technology and the internet we have many more ways to communicate and learn with the world around us. Webinars are one form of online communication that makes it easy to present ideas, information, tutorials and a variety of data to an interested audience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are unlimited opportunities to use webinars in the medical profession. Cardiology for one is a fast-moving medical specialty, which creates an increasing demand for continuous medical education. In the modern era, the ways we communicate, interact, work, and behave have changed.

Technology is changing the face of healthcare.

Education in Cardiology is no exception and new tools for online education (‘e-learning’) are now one of the mainstreams of medical education. Keeping pace with these new trends, webinars are new innovative tools to improve medical education. These new web-based learning technologies are here to stay. Webinars in general cardiology should be complementary with webinars from other sub-specialties, and should be organized with collaboration and mulit-disciplinary efforts. Their major advantages includes low operational cost while overcoming barriers of distance and time for learning. This can be particularly relevant in times when economic, regulatory, and professional constraints are putting increasing pressure on physician travel and continuous medical education.

This is why Neogen Medical Education works.

We have high-quality scientific content based on ESC Guidelines, with a strong focus on how to apply them in clinical practice. The programme covers all areas of knowledge in cardiovascular science, from disease prevention to end-stage heart failure. Top experts and key opinion leaders are invited to review the new evidence and discuss the best approaches in several clinical scenarios. We are a growing network with over 2000 medical professionals globally.

We employ clinical case-based learning: all webinars are based on the discussion of one or several real clinical cases from our everyday clinical practice. The best approach to the patient, the recommended diagnostic test, and the best treatment alternative are discussed in each case. We host a community of peer-reviewed case discussion that fosters learning through interactive Q&A sessions.

Interactivity: the webinars are transmitted live in real time and, therefore, it is possible to directly interact with the speakers. To improve the attendees' experience, throughout the webinar it is possible to vote on several multiple-choice questions, comment on the pooled results, and send online questions to the experts.

Watch them ‘live’ or ‘on demand’: most webinars are transmitted in the evening and for this interactive experience they should be attended live. However, for people not able to attend the live event, it is possible to watch the recording at any time by going to our video gallery. Attending the webinars in groups at hospitals or university can be more fun and they can be used to trigger a local discussion of a particular topic.

Portability: all webinars can be watched using an Internet connection on computers, iPads, tablets, and other mobile devices. So wherever people are, it is possible to learn while having interacting with our speakers and glonal community.

Accreditation: Neogen Medical Education is actively seeking accredited by so that the webinars can be used for continuous medical education globally.

Global Reach: Our audience is worldwide. The main goals are to improve patient care and to ‘reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease’ throughout the world.

Conclusion

Webinars can be of great use in the medical profession. As with other industries that have very complex topics, those in medicine are best explained using a variety of visual elements and a live voice. All reputable medical professionals strive to provide excellent care to patients and ensure that staff is working to the same goal, and webinars are tools that can greatly assist to that end.