A Post-COVID Syndrome Curriculum for Continuing Medical Education (CME): In-Person Versus Livestream

Frontiers in Medicine (08/26/24) Mueller, Michael; Ganesh, Ravindra; Schroeder, Darrell; et al.

Researchers developed a novel post-COVID syndrome curriculum using flipped classrooms that they implemented at four Mayo Clinic continuing medical education (CME) conferences. Before the conferences, participants were asked to take a post-COVID knowledge test and the Flipped Classroom Perception Inventory (FCPI), with another knowledge test, the FCPI, the CME Teaching Effectiveness Instrument, and the Learner Engagement Inventory administered post-conference. Fifty-nine participants completed the pre-test surveys, and 72 completed the post-test surveys, with approximately two-thirds coming from nonacademic group practices. The participants — who could attend the sessions in person or via livestream — demonstrated substantial improvements in post-COVID knowledge from before the course to after taking it, at 47% vs. 54%. There was also a trend toward improved FCPI scores. There were no significant differences reported for teaching effectiveness, learner engagement, and pre-post change in COVID knowledge by in-person and livestream participants. "This post-COVID FC curriculum was feasible and associated with improved knowledge scores among a diverse population of physician learners in CME," the researchers report.

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