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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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
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| spelling | doaj.art-4c0d2a5e3a3a4d8eb20cb3a3486c9e3b2023-06-06T03:12:14ZengDow University of Health SciencesJournal of the Dow University of Health Sciences1995-21982410-21802020-12-0114310.36570/jduhs.2020.3.1061Medical Education Amidst a Pandemic: Possibilities, Pitfalls and Way-OutsGominda Ponnamperuma0Professor, Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka 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 https://jduhs.com/index.php/jduhs/article/view/1061 |
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