Abstract

Background: Emergency medicine conferences play a pivotal role in advancing clinical knowledge, fostering professional networks, and improving patient outcomes. However, traditional large-scale formats face challenges in ensuring diversity, inclusivity, and participant engagement. This study investigates the effect of different medical conference experiences - traditional versus interactive - on the overall experience ratings of 143 healthcare professionals. The research also examines how professional role, experience level, and primary motivation for attendance influence these ratings. Objective: This study aims to assess the impact of alternative conference formats on engagement, inclusivity, and knowledge dissemination, with the goal of informing strategies to design more equitable and impactful emergency medicine conferences. Methods: Data were analyzed using a two-way mixed-design analysis of variance (ANOVA) and a paired-samples t-test. The findings indicate a statistically significant preference for interactive sessions over traditional ones across the entire sample (M=4.06 vs. M=3.75, p

Key words: Boomers to Zoomers, Generational Gap in Medical Conferences.