Table 2.
Summary of results
| Ranking | Cluster | Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S | Expenses | • Lack of educational grants, lack of travel grants, and compensation of expenses for conferences |
| • The sample could show that smaller hospitals offered more generous compensation, whereas bigger hospitals offered more in-house CME | |||
| 2 | S/I | Training curriculum | • Lack of residents’ interest in transplant-specific CME given constant fluctuation of residents, even more observable since the COVID-19 pandemic |
| • Lack of career perspective in alloHSCT | |||
| 3 | I/S/C | Overwhelmed at the beginning | • Lack of support of attendings or inadequate supervision, including lack of appropriate introduction into alloHSCT |
| • Lack of continuous, structured CME programs | |||
| 4 | S | Staff shortages and lack of time for CME | • Three free days for CME during the year are common but not sufficient, and participation in live CMEs is often not possible due to lack of staff and lack of flexibility to attend CME during worktime |
| 5 | C | Format of CME sessions | • Concentration rapidly decreasing in lectures, thus case-based learning, interactive sessions, and small-group learning favored but often lacking |
| 6 | S/I | Lack of incentives | • Researchers are often granted compensation of expenses for more prominent conferences but less for CME |
| • Virtual conferences potentially led to a lack of interest in research and CME | |||
| 7 | I/S | Better networking | • Case conferences involving different centers and staff exchange with other centers often lacking |
| • Secure platform for exchange on clinical care in alloHSCT needed | |||
| 8 | C | Better overview of available CME courses | • Difficulty to find suitable CME courses |
| • Content-related spectrum insufficient | |||
| • Internet offers are spamming inboxes | |||
| 9 | C | More flexible offers | • On-demand CME courses often lacking but particularly needed by physicians with children as parents wish to integrate CME into daily clinical routines |
| 10 | I/S/C | Offer tailored CME courses | • Lack of tailored courses targeted to participants’ needs, e.g., residents require different CME compared to attendings |
S, structural; C, content-related; I, individual.