How medical education survives and evolves during COVID-19: Our experience and future direction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), school openings were postponed worldwide as a way to stop its spread. Most classes are moving online, and this includes medical school classes. The authors present their experience of running such online classes with offline clinical clerkship under pandemic conditions, and also present data on student satisfaction, academic performance, and preference.

Methods

The medical school changed every first-year to fourth-year course to an online format except the clinical clerkship, clinical skills training, and basic laboratory classes such as anatomy lab sessions. Online courses were pre-recorded video lectures or live-streamed using video communication software. At the end of each course, students and profess

SUBMITTER: Kim JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7748283 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature