Graduate health professions education programs as they choose to represent themselves: A website review

Introduction: In an age of increasingly face-to-face, blended, and online Health Professions Education, students have more selections of where they will receive a degree. For an applicant, oftentimes, the first step is to learn more about a program through its website. Websites allow programs to convey their unique voice and to share their mission and values with others, such as applicants, researchers, and academics. Additionally, as the number of Health Professions Education programs rapidly grows, websites can share the priorities of these programs. Methods: In this study, we conducted a website review of 158 Health Professions Education websites to explore their geographical distributions, missions, educational concentrations, and various programmatic components. Results: We compiled this information and synthesized pertinent aspects, such as program similarities and differences, or highlighted the omission of critical data. Conclusion: Given that websites are often the first point..., Our team deduced that most HPE programs would have a website, and that this would serve as a representation of how individuals within the program choose to view themselves and hope to be viewed by others. Further, our team determined that these websites would be an efficient means of collecting programmatic information for the purposes of learning more about program growth, diversity, and values. We conducted the website review from August 2021 to April 2022 using a list of worldwide Health Professions Education programs, which was acquired from the Foundation of Advancement of International Medical Education and Research’s (FAIMER’s) website. FAIMER was chosen as the origin source of programs studied due to its use in another published study evaluating HPE programs. Each master's degree in HPE offered by a university was counted separately, allowing us to note the differences in course and time requirements across all programs. Only HPE master's programs were selected for this study. C..., Microsoft Excel, or, Google Sheets is best used, however there are likely other programs that could be used to view the information引言：在面对面授课、混合式教学与在线教学日益普及的健康职业教育（Health Professions Education, HPE）时代，学生获取学位的就读选择愈发多元。对于申请者而言，通常第一步便是通过项目官方网站深入了解相关课程项目。院校项目可借助官网传递自身独特的办学特色，向申请者、研究者与学者等群体分享其使命与价值理念。此外，随着健康职业教育项目数量的快速增长，官网也成为了传递这些项目办学优先级的重要载体。 方法：本研究针对158个健康职业教育项目官网开展调研，以探究其地域分布、使命定位、教育专注领域及各类项目构成要素。 结果：本研究对收集到的信息进行了整理与综合分析，梳理了项目间的异同点，并指出了关键数据缺失的情况。 结论：鉴于官网通常是申请者接触项目的首要渠道……本研究团队推断，绝大多数健康职业教育项目均拥有官方网站，而这些官网将体现项目内部人员对自身的定位，以及他们希望被外界认知的形象。进一步而言，本团队认为，这类官网可作为高效的项目信息收集渠道，用于深入了解项目的发展情况、多样性与价值主张。本研究于2021年8月至2022年4月期间开展官网调研，所用的全球健康职业教育项目名录源自国际医学教育与研究促进基金会（Foundation of Advancement of International Medical Education and Research, FAIMER）官网。选择FAIMER作为项目来源，是因为其已在另一项评估健康职业教育项目的已发表研究中得到应用。本研究将每所高校开设的健康职业教育硕士项目单独计数，以便梳理不同项目在课程与学时要求上的差异。本研究仅纳入健康职业教育硕士项目。[原文存在内容缺失]，使用Microsoft Excel或Google Sheets可最佳呈现该数据集，不过也可采用其他同类工具查看相关信息。