[Implementation of a digital semester for ophthalmology during the COVID-19 pandemic].

ABSTRACT:

Background

The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic posed great challenges for teachers and students, as teaching had to take place despite the restriction of classroom teaching. For attendance lessons and events with patient contact alternatives had to be arranged at short notice between mid-March and the beginning of the semester in mid-April.

Objective

Description of the concept and implementation in the student teaching at the Department of Ophthalmology of the University Medical Center Mainz in complete digital form in spring 2020.

Presentation of concept

Lectures, examination course and practical training in ophthalmology take place in the 5th and 6th semester of the study of human medicine. The basis of the new concept were the former course curricula. Implement

SUBMITTER: Muller A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7809555 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature