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Comprehensive Evaluation of Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Websites
Robert Pagan-Rosado1, Mark Friedrich Hurdle2, Claudia Jimenez3
1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Objective:
To evaluate the comprehensiveness of primary care sports medicine fellowship websites and identify potential areas of improvement.
Design:
Cross-sectional analysis of fellowship program websites using quantitative and descriptive statistics.
Setting:
Internet.
Participants:
A total of 192 primary care sports medicine fellowship websites listed on the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) website.
Independent Variables:
Program Specialty and Program Region.
Main Outcome Measures:
The presence or absence of 19 predetermined criteria on primary care sports medicine fellowship websites.
Results:
The average number of criteria that was included on each website was 9.8 (SD 3.5) (51.6%) of the possible 19. Programs had as few as 2 of the 19 (10.5%) criteria included on their website, and others had as many as 17 of the 19 (89.4%) criteria. Of the 192 primary care sports medicine fellowships, only 5 (2.6%) addressed at least 80% of the 19 different criteria. No primary care sports medicine fellowship website included all 19 criteria.
Conclusions:
Most primary care sports medicine fellowship websites do not offer comprehensive information about their programs for prospective applicants.
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