Rusingiza, Emmanuel
Alizadeh, Faraz
Wolbrink, Traci
Mutamba, Barbra
Vinci, Samuel
Profita, Elizabeth L.
Rulisa, Steven
DelSignore, Lisa
Solis, Jessica
Geggel, Robert
Wilson, Kim
Funding for this research was provided by:
Boudreau Family Foundation
Article History
Received: 15 November 2021
Accepted: 21 February 2022
First Online: 16 March 2022
Declarations
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: Ethics approval for this study was obtained from University of Rwanda and Boston Children’s Hospital. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant institutional and national guidelines and regulations and adhere to the tenets of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent for participation in the evaluation of the OPENPediatrics™ Cardiology Curriculum was obtained at the initiation of the online survey. Study participants were assigned a study ID number for matching pre- and post-test response and data was collected anonymously for the sole purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of OPENPediatrics™. Aggregate data without unique identifiers was stored digitally and aggregate results were shared with University of Rwanda pediatric faculty.
: Not Applicable.
: The curriculum development, implementation and evaluation were generously funded by the Boudreau Family Foundation, in loving memory of Micheal Boudreau. The funding bodies played no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis and interpretation of the data and in writing the manuscript. The authors have no financial or non-financial competing interests to declare.