Medical Education Amidst a Pandemic: Possibilities, Pitfalls and Way-Outs

The pandemic caught us unprepared! Teaching, learning and assessment that we were used to were no longer available. The education world had to contend with a new normal with social distancing. E-learning was the only answer that the world knew. However, e-learning was something that medical educati...

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Main Author: Gominda Ponnamperuma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dow University of Health Sciences 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences
Online Access:https://jduhs.com/index.php/jduhs/article/view/1061
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Summary:The pandemic caught us unprepared! Teaching, learning and assessment that we were used to were no longer available. The education world had to contend with a new normal with social distancing. E-learning was the only answer that the world knew. However, e-learning was something that medical education had not considered as the sole mode of delivery. What follows is a brief discourse on how medical education responded to the pandemic, what has been learnt and what needs to be done to face the future more confidently
ISSN:1995-2198
2410-2180