Traditional teaching approaches are giving way to new ones in medical education. Residents' interest in readily available educational resources is causing instructors to rethink their teaching strategies. This study aims to find which of these ways of learning is preferred by residents. A descriptive survey study was distributed among emergency residents who doing their program in Riyadh during the period from April 2021 to September 2021. All Saudi board emergency medicine residents R1, R2, R3, R4, and post-training residents within the last two years in Riyadh were included. Data were collected using an electronic survey (SurveyMonkey) using a validated questionnaire. This study analyzed 202 residents and post-graduated and ER residents regarding their learning sources and preferences. Participants were at different levels of training as 23.8% were in their first year of residency, 22.8% were in their second year, 19.3% were in their third year, 22.3% were in their fourth year and 11.9% finished their training during the last two years. The majority of the participants 57.4% claimed that they spend 1-2 hours of their extracurricular time on educational material.

Objective: This study focused at emergency medicine registrars at King Saud Medical City to assess their preferred learning methods during extracurricular time. Also, the relationship between certain demographic characteristics and preferred learning modalities was investigated. Methods: In this descriptive study, a validated questionnaire designed and tested by Utah University in the United States of America was used. It was a simple survey designed to cover all important points in short time. The survey was distributed using online tool SurveyMonkey. Results: The current study results found that podcasts was the most chosen modality by participants as it was beneficial and they spent their time more on podcasts. Age of participants was shown to be associated with use of internet and google as leaning tool. Conclusion: It was found that participants chose podcasts as a learning channel more than other modalities of emergency medicine registrars at all levels and their extracurricular educational programs. Age was substantially correlated with less use of Google and online searches for educational purposes.

BACKGROUND: Recently with the evolution of interest and electronic devices, education was changed greatly to be easier, effective, and reasonable. Emergency medicine is a sensitive part of medicine which need rapid stabilization, examination, diagnosis, and even management of the participant. AIM: In this study, we focused on emergency medicine registrars at King Saud medical city to know their preferred learning methods during extracurricular time. Furthermore, we investigated the relationship between certain demographic characteristics and preferred learning modality. METHODS: We used validation questionnaire design and tested by UTAH University in the United States of America, it was a simple survey designed to cover all important points in short time. We distributed the survey using online tool (survey monkey). RESULTS: Our study results found that podcasts was the most modality chosen by participants as beneficial and they expend their time more on podcasts. Age of participants was shown to be associated with use of internet and Google as leaning tool. We hope that researcher investigates this area of gab and future learning methods during emergency medicine doctors as well as other specialties of medicine. CONCLUSION: We found that participants chose podcasts as a learning channel more than other modalities in our study of emergency medicine registrars at all levels and their extracurricular educational programs. Age was substantially correlated with less use of Google and online searches for educational purposes.