Medical education advances and innovations: A silver lining during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare processes substantially including medical education, necessitating several changes along the spectrum of medical training. While this crisis presents major challenges to medical education, it is also an immense opportunity for innovation. In this comme...

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Autores principales:	Nishila Mehta, Céline Sayed, Rishi Sharma, Victor Do
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Canadian Medical Education Journal 2020
Materias:	Education (General) L7-991 Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3ab39a2f14ad453cae7031e76367b66b2021-12-01T22:38:28ZMedical education advances and innovations: A silver lining during the COVID-19 pandemic10.36834/cmej.709261923-1202https://doaj.org/article/3ab39a2f14ad453cae7031e76367b66b2020-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/70926https://doaj.org/toc/1923-1202 The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare processes substantially including medical education, necessitating several changes along the spectrum of medical training. While this crisis presents major challenges to medical education, it is also an immense opportunity for innovation. In this commentary, Canadian medical students cast a spotlight on four domains of Canadian medical education which have seen substantial changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: medical school admissions, pre-clerkship content delivery, virtual care and telemedicine curricula, and the residency matching process. Using the 10 recommendations noted in the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) 2010 Future of Medical Education in Canada report as a guiding framework, we discuss why these changes represent key steps forward that should be preserved in medical education beyond the pandemic, and advocate for a continuous quality improvement approach to evaluate and implement these innovations. Nishila MehtaCéline SayedRishi SharmaVictor DoCanadian Medical Education JournalarticleEducation (General)L7-991Medicine (General)R5-920ENCanadian Medical Education Journal, Vol 11, Iss 6 (2020)
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description	The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare processes substantially including medical education, necessitating several changes along the spectrum of medical training. While this crisis presents major challenges to medical education, it is also an immense opportunity for innovation. In this commentary, Canadian medical students cast a spotlight on four domains of Canadian medical education which have seen substantial changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: medical school admissions, pre-clerkship content delivery, virtual care and telemedicine curricula, and the residency matching process. Using the 10 recommendations noted in the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) 2010 Future of Medical Education in Canada report as a guiding framework, we discuss why these changes represent key steps forward that should be preserved in medical education beyond the pandemic, and advocate for a continuous quality improvement approach to evaluate and implement these innovations.
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title_short	Medical education advances and innovations: A silver lining during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full	Medical education advances and innovations: A silver lining during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Medical education advances and innovations: A silver lining during the COVID-19 pandemic

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