Table 5.
Disadvantages of educational emails as reported by the participants (n=15).
| Disadvantages | n (%) |
| Overwhelming, eg, email difficult to manage | 6 (40%) |
| Not relevant to specialized practice | 2 (13%) |
| Time consuming | 1 (7%) |
| Email may cost to use and to maintain | 1 (7%) |
| Educational email is sometimes confused with commercial email (spam) | 1 (7%) |
| Email readability is affected when writers are not professional editors | 1 (7%) |