Addressing Equity in Global Medical Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Global Medical Education Collaborative.

ABSTRACT:

Problem

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique set of challenges to medical education globally. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have faced unique barriers in transitioning to virtual modalities, and many medical students in LMICs experienced dramatically reduced educational time. The authors created the Global Medical Education Collaborative (GMEC) to address this problem by providing free, online, case-based tutorials to medical students in LMICs during the pandemic.

Approach

The authors developed a needs assessment to gauge students' educational requirements, which informed GMEC's 2 primary goals: to provide free access to interactive online tutorials for students in LMICs and to bridge the physical distance between educators and learners via an online platf

SUBMITTER: Posever N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8541891 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature