ArticleJRSM open2014
Evaluation of the first year of the Oxpal Medlink: A web-based partnership designed to address specific challenges facing medical education in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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- Challenges and opportunities for educating health professionals after the COVID-19 pandemic.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Review
- Distance-learning collaborations for rapid knowledge sharing to the occupied Palestinian territory during the COVID-19 response: experience from the OxPal partnership.Medicine, conflict, and survival · 2021Article
- Reflective practice and transcultural psychiatry peer e-learning between Somaliland and the UK: a qualitative evaluation.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Enablers and Barriers of a Cross-Cultural Geriatric Education Distance Training Programme: The Singapore-Uganda Experience.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Evaluation of the first year of Dental Health Partnerships: a web-based distance learning partnership between UK dental educators and students from low-resource countries.British dental journal · 2018Article
- London calling Gaza: The role of international collaborations in the globalisation of postgraduate burn care education.Scars, burns & healingArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo (1) evaluate educational needs of clinical students at Al-Quds University Medical School in the West Bank; (2) address these needs where possible using synchronous distance learning, with clinicians in Oxford providing case-based tutorials to undergraduates in the West Bank via an online platform (WizIQ) and (3) assess the impact of this education.
designReview of online OxPal Medlink database for tutorials held between March 2012 and April 2013. Needs assessment and evaluation of student and tutor experiences through online questionnaires, focus groups and semi-structured interviews.
settingOxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK, and Al-Quds University Medical School, Abu Dies, Palestine.
participantsDoctors at Oxford University Hospitals and fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year medical students and faculty members at Al-Quds Medical School.
main outcome measuresNumber of tutorials, student participation, student-rated satisfaction and qualitative feedback from tutors and students.
resultsStudents demonstrated strong theoretical knowledge but struggled to apply this in presentation-based scenarios. Between March 2012 and April 2013, 90 tutorials were delivered to 60 students. Feedback: >95% respondents rated tutorials as 'Excellent' or 'Good' and 'Very' or 'Fairly' relevant to their future practice in Palestine. Students reported the programme had modified their approach to patients but requested better synchronization with concurrent attachments and clarification of learning outcomes.
conclusionsOxPal Medlink is a novel, web-based distance-learning partnership designed to overcome some of the challenges to local medical education in the occupied Palestinian territories. Evaluation of the first year indicates teaching is relevant to local practice and of high quality. This approach may have the potential to strengthen local capacity for medical education.
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