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ArticleAdvances in medical education and practice2020

Simulations and Virtual Learning Supporting Clinical Education During the COVID 19 Pandemic.

Shima Tabatabai

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Article in Advances in medical education and practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34 citing papers in PubMed.

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Shima TabatabaiMedical Ethics and Law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-7565-6974

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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challengesclinical trainingCOVID-19medical educationsimulationvirtual learning

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PMID32821192
PMCPMC7424224

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