Exploring Perspectives on Educational Program

To explore participants’ perspectives about the program, we used a qualitative study design. The study was approved by the IRB at MDA. All participants were contacted via email to take part in a semi-structured interview and provided verbal informed consent to participate. Participants were not offered compensation. The semi-structured interviews were conducted via teleconference between June 2021 and September 2021 by a single member of the team (N.A.) from MDA who had not participated in the lecture series or previously interacted with the participants. With the permission of the interviewees, the interviews were audio recorded and manually transcribed. Data collection ended when all participants had been interviewed or declined to be interviewed.
The semi-structured interview guide was developed with input from both CDH and MDA investigators (Table 1). Thematic analysis of the transcripts from these interviews was used to examine patterns and relationships between themes and subthemes with the assistance of the qualitative data analysis software ATLAS.ti (version 9, Berlin, Germany). Each transcript was double-coded by 2 co-authors (K.D., D.A.K.) with the interview guide, and any differences were resolved through discussion.^{5 (link),6 (link)} Emergent themes were extracted and are presented below, with representative verbatim quotations.