title: Emergency medicine residents' beliefs about contributing to a Google Docs presentation: a survey protocol.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Web 2.0 collaborative writing technologies have shown positive effects on medical education. One such technology, Google Docs(™), offers collaborative writing applications that improve healthcare students' sharing of information. Since 2008, all graduating  residents in emergency medicine in Canada have had access to an online Google Docs(™) slideshow designed to help them share summaries of landmark articles in preparation for their Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada certification exam. A recent evaluation showed  that contributions to the presentation were low.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study will identify the factors that influence residents' decision to contribute or not to contribute to this online collaborative project.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, semistructured interviews  will be conducted with 25 graduating emergency medicine residents in Canada. Content from the interviews will be analysed to determine the most important beliefs in relation to the defined behaviour.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To our knowledge, this study will be the first to use a theory based  framework to identify healthcare trainees' salient beliefs concerning their decision whether to contribute to an online collaborative writing project using Google Docs(™).
authors: Centre de santé et de services sociaux Alphonse-Desjardins, Lévis, Canada. patrick.m.archambault@gmail.com
authors: Patrick M
authors: PM
authors: Archambault
authors: Danielle
authors: D
authors: Blouin
authors: Julien
authors: J
authors: Poitras
authors: Renée-Marie
authors: RM
authors: Fountain
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Fleet
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Bilodeau
authors: France
authors: F
authors: Légaré
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*; D007858:Learning