Medical Education Amidst a Pandemic: Possibilities, Pitfalls and Way-Outs

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  • Gominda Ponnamperuma Professor, Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

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https://doi.org/10.36570/jduhs.2020.3.1061

Abstract

The pandemic caught us unprepared! Teaching, learning and assessment that we were used to were no longer available. The education world had to contend with a new normal with social distancing. E-learning was the only answer that the world knew. However, e-learning was something that medical education had not considered as the sole mode of delivery. What follows is a brief discourse on how medical education responded to the pandemic, what has been learnt and what needs to be done to face the future more confidently

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Published

2020-12-17

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Ponnamperuma, G. (2020). Medical Education Amidst a Pandemic: Possibilities, Pitfalls and Way-Outs. Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences (JDUHS), 14(3), 99–101. https://doi.org/10.36570/jduhs.2020.3.1061

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Vol. 14 No. 3

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Editorial

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