To investigate the current application status and influencing factors of we media in the continuing education of neurology residents.

An anonymous questionnaire survey was conducted among neurology residents training at Peking University Third Hospital and Peking University Sixth Hospital from February 2024 to January 2026. The survey collected demographic information, methods, duration, and preferences of continuing education, as well as evaluations of we media continuing education platforms from the study subjects. According to the primary continuing education modality reported by the study subjects, the study subjects were divided into the we-media-primary group (12 subjects) and the non-we-media-primary group (20 subjects). The independent samples t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, Chi-square test, or Fisher's exact test was used to compare the differences in characteristics between the group using we media as the primary continuing education method and the group not using we media as the primary method.

A total of 32 neurology residents participated in this study. We media was found to be the most frequently selected primary continuing education modality (12 people, 37.50%), and WeChat official accounts were the most commonly used we media platform (19 people, 59.38%). Graphic and text-based content was the most preferred form (22 people, 68.75%). In terms of evaluation, the advantages of using we media for continuing education included convenient access (30 people, 93.75%) and engaging content (17 people, 53.13%), while the main disadvantages were difficulty in distinguishing true from false information (21 people, 65.63%), highly repetitive and incomplete content (21 people, 65.63%), and easy distraction (15 people, 46.88%). There were no significant differences in gender, age, training duration, training status, job position distribution, or weekly continuing education hours between residents who primarily used we media and those who did not (all P＞0.05).

We media has become an important form of continuing education for residents. Future efforts urgently require the establishment of quality review mechanisms, the construction of systematic knowledge frameworks, ethical review, and proactive prevention of the information cocoon effect.