Five Steps for Success in Building Your Own Educational Web Site.

AS MILLENNIAL LEARNERS enter the medical field, they note a lag in innovation of medical education curricula, compared with peers in other fields. Whereas physician trainees conduct most of their self-directed learning using online and mobile resources, formalized medical education tends to be in lecture format. Most physician trainees use smartphones to query information and use electronic tablets to improve daily workflow in patient care and learning. Millennial physician trainees also prefer educational engagement beyond textbooks and journals, including multimedia and hands-on practice. Furthermore, learning spread across multiple modalities might enhance memory transfer and retention. Medical educators might be illprepared to adapt to the emerging digital shift in content creation, distribution, and consumption. Today’s educators must respond to the needs of our learners and move toward developing educational tools, such as Web sites, that allow for live and asynchronous learning.