Simulations and Virtual Learning Supporting Clinical Education During the COVID 19 Pandemic
Shima Tabatabai Medical Ethics and Law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranCorrespondence: Shima Tabatabai Chamran Highway, Velenjak St, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 1984813568, Tehran, IranTel +982122405611Fax +982122588016Ema...
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| description | Shima Tabatabai Medical Ethics and Law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranCorrespondence: Shima Tabatabai Chamran Highway, Velenjak St, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 1984813568, Tehran, IranTel +982122405611Fax +982122588016Email shtabatabai@yahoo.comAbstract: Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic has a critical impact on clinical education, and it has resulted in the widespread disruption of clinical assessment. Clinical mentors and students in all the health professions are working within the most troublesome of circumstances in the hospital-based educational settings. Medical educationists ought to concentrate on the health and the safety of the students and communities. The safety issues have prompted the Ministry of Health to suggest that schools develop action plans for the adoption of available technologies to keep medical education moving forward with high quality, active, and interactive learning for more demanding tomorrow. A key challenge for medical educators is to simulate the clinical encounters at this unprecedented time, and this emphasized the necessity of applying virtual simulation-based educational tools in clinical education. This commentary explores how COVID-19 has challenged medical education. It also has discussed the future implications and potencial challenges of incorporating simulation-based virtual learning technologies into the medical curriculum, for the future of clinical education, and students’ or residents’ competency evaluation.Keywords: clinical training, COVID-19, challenges, medical education, simulation, virtual learning |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12bad5fc81bd47d587d6c0d2caba7f812022-12-22T01:12:21ZengDove Medical PressAdvances in Medical Education and Practice1179-72582020-08-01Volume 1151351655960Simulations and Virtual Learning Supporting Clinical Education During the COVID 19 PandemicTabatabai SShima Tabatabai Medical Ethics and Law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranCorrespondence: Shima Tabatabai Chamran Highway, Velenjak St, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 1984813568, Tehran, IranTel +982122405611Fax +982122588016Email shtabatabai@yahoo.comAbstract: Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic has a critical impact on clinical education, and it has resulted in the widespread disruption of clinical assessment. Clinical mentors and students in all the health professions are working within the most troublesome of circumstances in the hospital-based educational settings. Medical educationists ought to concentrate on the health and the safety of the students and communities. The safety issues have prompted the Ministry of Health to suggest that schools develop action plans for the adoption of available technologies to keep medical education moving forward with high quality, active, and interactive learning for more demanding tomorrow. A key challenge for medical educators is to simulate the clinical encounters at this unprecedented time, and this emphasized the necessity of applying virtual simulation-based educational tools in clinical education. This commentary explores how COVID-19 has challenged medical education. It also has discussed the future implications and potencial challenges of incorporating simulation-based virtual learning technologies into the medical curriculum, for the future of clinical education, and students’ or residents’ competency evaluation.Keywords: clinical training, COVID-19, challenges, medical education, simulation, virtual learninghttps://www.dovepress.com/simulations-and-virtual-learning-supporting-clinical-education-during--peer-reviewed-article-AMEPclinical trainingcovid-19challengesmedical educationsimulationvirtual learning |
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| title | Simulations and Virtual Learning Supporting Clinical Education During the COVID 19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Simulations and Virtual Learning Supporting Clinical Education During the COVID 19 Pandemic |
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| title_short | Simulations and Virtual Learning Supporting Clinical Education During the COVID 19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | simulations and virtual learning supporting clinical education during the covid 19 pandemic |
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