Journal article
Medical education and COVID-19 pandemic: a crisis management model towards an evolutionary pathway
Education and Information Technologies, Vol.27, pp.3299-3320
04/2022
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Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis has had a profound effect on higher education, especially medical education due to its sensitive nature, dealing with people’s life and wellbeing. This study presented a crisis management model of how to direct medical education during crises. A qualitative design was used via a focus group among 83 medical education administrators at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Four major challenges emerged regarding medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic including “The health and wellbeing of faculty members and students”; “Spatial constraints”; “Time constraints”, and “Access to resources”. A total of 13 strategies were suggested to tackle the challenges, including virtualization, technological support, empowerment, participation, sharing, helping, integration, compression, omission, flexibility and diversity, severance, protection; and monitoring. For a sustainable educational pathway in medical education, personalized approach to education via the incorporation of technology is essential. This provides opportunities to tackle the issues caused by the crisis, by provision of any time and anywhere approach to education via flexible technologies/platforms adjusted based on the audiences. The scope of crisis management expands not only on individual and academic levels but also on social and global relations.
Details
- Title
- Medical education and COVID-19 pandemic: a crisis management model towards an evolutionary pathway
- Creators
- Zahra Karimian - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesMajid Reza Farrokhi - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesMohsen Moghadami - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesNahid Zarifsanaiey - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesManoosh Mehrabi - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesLaleh Khojasteh - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesNasim Salehi - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Education and Information Technologies, Vol.27, pp.3299-3320
- Publisher
- Springer New York LLC
- Identifiers
- 991012968498802368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021
- Academic Unit
- School of Health and Human Sciences; Nursing; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article