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Title
Virtual Learning: A New Modality Of Medical Education Teaching In The Era Of Pandemics
Length of Presentation
Half Day (4 hours)
Rationale/Background
Teaching in the clinical environment is a challenging. Many methods have been described with wide variety of rang in delivering the information.
Recently, teaching and learning using technologies such as virtual worlds have expanded rapidly specially with new global situation of COVID19 pandemic which may limit or change the way we teach the medical learners.
Virtual learning is distance learning conducted in a virtual learning environment with electronic study content designed for self-paced (asynchronous) or live web-conferencing (synchronous) online teaching and tutoring. It has several advantages over traditional didactic models of instruction.
Instructional Methods
participants will be engaged in several activities:
(1) Interactive didactic introduction highlights the history; definition of virtual learning and it is importance as alternative methods of education when it is needed
(2) In small groups table discussion; participants will identify barriers to implement virtual learning in a daily busy clinical environment
(3) Engagement in discussions and reflections on video-clips of different approaches in how to implement the different types of virtual learning
(4) At the end we will share some measures to assess the effectiveness of virtual learning on patient outcomes and learners' behaviors, skills and knowledge.
Target audience
The workshop welcomes all stakeholders in medical education, physicians, training program leaders, faculty development and other educators interested in the medical education and teaching.
Learning Objectives
1) Define the virtual learning and highlight it is importance in medical education
2) Identify benefits and challenges to apply it in a busy clinical setting
3) Describe different strategies to implement virtual learning and how to assess its effectiveness
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Authors
Presenter
Magda Youssef
Eman Almaslamani
Ahmed Alhammadi
Hatim Abdelrahman
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