Effectiveness of online trainings on radiation protection in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Abstract Over 212 healthcare professionals from the country have used the online trainings on radiation protection conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each training, lasting up to 10 working days, is accompanied by mandatory Google Form-based questionnaires, which includes topic key questions about each lecture as well as pre- and post-training tests and provided to participants. In addition, the ability to conduct a dialogue with patients about radiation risks, group discussions, as well as a special module for radiation protection officers were assessed online. The trainings also allow participants to focus on the most important issues from their point of view in their daily work, indicating them in pre-tests, allowing the trainers to conduct lectures more adequately for each group of participants. Analysis of the tests have shown that online training is not inferior in efficiency to face-to-face training and national regulatory body received an improved opportunity to indirectly assess this efficiency.