Stand Together and Deliver: Challenges and Opportunities for Rheumatology Education During the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 Pandemic

Koumpouras, Fotios; Helfgott, Simon M.

doi:10.1002/art.41278

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“…6 A number of countries simply suspended education at their universities, others redeveloped their curriculum to continue education on online platforms, or allowed faceto-face teaching with some special measures. [7][8][9][10][11] Furthermore, a signi cant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was shown in regards to medical student education, particularly in the transition from student to doctor. 12 In-person education was suspended from the middle of March 2020 until the end of May 2020 in Hungary, with the option of virtual education or postponing courses.…”

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The efficacy of intensive therapy and anaesthesiology virtual distance learning among fifth-year medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Kovács¹,

Kállai²,

Fritúz³

et al. 2020

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Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) brought several challenges in medical education. The aim of our study was to investigate whether virtual trainings (VT) organized during the COVID-19 pandemic at our university were effective in replacing in-person bed-side education in intensive therapy and anaesthesiology among fifth-year medical students, both from students' and instructors' perspectives. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study consisting of three parts: a 20-item students' questionnaire filled out by students participating in VT, a 22-item instructors' questionnaire filled out by instructors taking part in virtual education and a 20-item knowledge test completed by students participating in VT, as well as by students visiting bed-side trainings (BT) during the same semester, before COVID-19 pandemic. The questionnaires focused on effectiveness, content, self-preparedness, technical background and interactivity of VT. Instructors' and students' responses given to the common questions, as well as the knowledge test results were compared. Mann-Whitney U test was used for group comparisons and binary logistic regression was performed to analyse the influence of previous health-care experience on students' feeling of self-preparedness. Results: 113 students (68% response rate) and 29 instructors (97% response rate) filled out the questionnaires. The majority of students found our VT useful and effective; however, a considerable number of participants felt disadvantaged by taking a virtual course instead of bed-side learning sessions and would recommend to keep virtual distance learning methods combined with BT. Instructors found VT overall effective and deemed the transfer of their knowledge satisfactory; however, they described worse interactivity and contact with students during virtual sessions compared to in-person teaching. Instructors showed a clearer consensus that VT should not replace BT in the future, while students’ answers were more divided in this regard. Previous health-care experience did not influence students' feeling of self-preparedness. One hundred and twenty-seven students (56 after VT and 71 after BT) completed the end-of-semester knowledge test. Students participating in VT performed better than students visiting BT (median score VT:83.5 vs BT:77.3; p=0.015). Conclusions: The new curriculum incorporating virtual practice sessions was effective in maintaining continuous education of intensive therapy and anaesthesiology among fifth-year medical students during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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The efficacy of intensive therapy and anaesthesiology virtual distance learning among fifth-year medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Kovács¹,

Kállai²,

Fritúz³

et al. 2020

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“…Unfortunately, some of the citizens have been ignorant of its existence. This is evident from the fact that some people are still ignoring the already in place strategies such as social distancing and lockdowns [7]. Thus, it is high time that key approaches such as awareness creation are intensified.…”

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2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic; Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Effectiveness of Infection Control and Prevention: Precautions in California

Singh¹,

Kaur²,

Akshay³

2020

J Infect Dis Epidemiol

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Background: The emergence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have led to governments, and public health organizations offer advisory on effective preventive measures that must be adopted in disease prevention. An inadequate response could impact regions and countries significantly with the potential of collapsing the public health systems. The main challenge facing the containment efforts is the lack of effective measures for prevention. Public health response to prevent the spread. The unavailability of effective treatment options has all impacted the entire prevention and control measures. Study ethics: Adherence to the research ethics, the research would be conducted upon approval obtained from the University Ethics committee. The study would also be compliant with the Governmental Health Department's standards. In addition to any healthcare workers' private details involved in the study would be confidentially held.

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“…The Ukrainian case scenario is an example where properly organised online courses may augment and enrich rheumatology education. Three attributes are required to transcend these existing barriers: flexibility, innovation, and safety [25]. The flexibility should emanate across strata from accreditation bodies to hospital governing bodies, academic faculty, and learners.…”

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Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19

2020

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The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unsettled conventional medical education, hastening a switch to digital platforms and open-access publishing. Rheumatology is a fast evolving academic discipline that stands to gain by this switch. Most rheumatology textbooks are now available in digital formats, and these are complemented with live updating educational hubs such as UpToDate and ClinicalKey. Emerging topics of COVID-19 on these proprietary platforms are now freely available to all specialists. Social media channels, particularly Twitter, are becoming major players in the era of COVID-19 by offering online journal clubs, enabling fast dissemination of influential articles, and facilitating interactive education. Indexed rheumatology journals, in turn, aid online education by opening access to recommendations and other materials that are rapidly changing research and practice worldwide. Research peer review additionally offers learning experience to novice and seasoned researchers and authors. Global rheumatology societies have online learning resources, which are changing their format and geographic reach to meet the changing needs in the times of pandemic. While online teaching lacks emotional connections between mentors and mentees, switch to a more interactive format of education and regular contacts may partly solve the issue. Rheumatologists can take the lead in these challenging times and contribute more to online scholarly activities which are aimed to maintain and enrich education.

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Stand Together and Deliver: Challenges and Opportunities for Rheumatology Education During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Cited by 33 publications

References 6 publications

The efficacy of intensive therapy and anaesthesiology virtual distance learning among fifth-year medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

The efficacy of intensive therapy and anaesthesiology virtual distance learning among fifth-year medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic; Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Effectiveness of Infection Control and Prevention: Precautions in California

Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19

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