Will webinars prove to be an effective teaching medium post-pandemic?

Since the government of India announced a lockdown of the country from March 2020 to September 2020, all physical conferences were cancelled indefinitely, and the education of postgraduate junior doctors is now being organised through webinars and teleconferencing apps.1 A known benefit of webinars is that they can be recorded and stored which can be made available for future learning sessions.2 Recently published standard operating procedures for smooth conductance of webinars are a helpful set of instructions for the faculty who are using webinars as a teaching medium because medical education has not come to a halt even during the pandemic.3 4 While the webinars are breaking through the web space by way of several of them being held at regular intervals throughout the day, the concerns and perspectives of the members and delegates are hardly accounted for. In several of the webinars, we have seen delegates switching off their videos and logging off within few minutes. Jeremy Bailenson described the term ‘Zoom Fatigue’, which is gaining a lot of traction these days, as an exhausting feeling that individuals experienced after prolonged video chats.5 Indian dermatologists were overwhelmed with the increasing number of webinars planned every day and hence they were reluctant to attend webinars.6 Are the delegates finding the webinars useful and are the webinars a good substitute for physically conducted continued medical education (CME) events? Hence, we conducted an online survey to evaluate the perspective of healthcare workers (HCWs) regarding the effectiveness of webinars during the COVID-19 times and …