Education in shared decision making

Abstract

This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Introduction Shared decision making in healthcare is important. Education in shared decision making is required to ensure that healthcare professionals are equipped so that they can effectively share decisions with patients. Online learning may be one method of doing this. Online learning resources allow large numbers of users to access clinical content at a time and place that is convenient for them. Methods BMJ Learning is the online learning website of BMJ. BMJ Learning recently published a module on shared decision making. We evaluated the module by looking at how popular the module was, by examining the feedback that we received on the module and by looking at what percentage of users who started the module completed it. We analysed the feedback from a qualitative perspective.Results A total of 748 users started the module and 586 completed it. This gives a completion rate of 78%. The mean completion rate of all modules on the site is 83%. Feedback to the resource was mixed. 47 users described the resource as useful, good or excellent. 10 described it as interesting and 3 said that the content related to their learning needs. 10 users left negative comments.Conclusions Shared decision making is clearly a learning need amongst healthcare professionals and many users feel that an online learning module in this format is an effective means of satisfying this need.