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    Effect of traditional and online educational interventions on nutrition knowledge acquisition and retention in pediatric residents
    (2015-01-28) Silverman, Jason; Konthandaraman, Maitreyi; Coderre, Sylvain
    Nutrition education for medical trainees is inadequate despite nutrition’s importance in health and disease. Results showed that Canadian pediatric residency programs offered limited formal nutrition instruction. Online learning may bypass identified barriers to increasing formal nutrition instruction by allowing learning to take place on a learner’s schedule, and in the absence of local expert faculty. Therefore we aimed to compare the effect of online and traditional nutrition instruction amongst pediatric residents. Participants had inadequate nutrition knowledge on baseline objective testing and subjective self-report. Following the educational intervention, both online and in-person groups demonstrated significant increases in nutrition knowledge compared to baseline that was conserved after two months. No significant difference was found between intervention groups. The results show that a focussed time-limited educational intervention can lead to significant nutrition knowledge acquisition and retention, and that online learning may provide a reasonable curricular option for postgraduate training programs.