Coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19 and impacts on medical education: a systematic review

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2020, the world has been affected by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The virus’ infectious nature pushed all sectors to implement social distancing measures in an effort to limit its transmission, including the education sector. We searched PubMed and Science Direct on June 12th and found 24 papers that are relevant to our review. After the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 is a global threat, various countries took a variety of measures to limit the disease spread such as social distancing, self-quarantine, and closing public facilities that hold large gatherings, including universities and schools. Hospitals started to prioritize services for COVID-19 cases. Medical education programs are also affected by this disease, but not continuing in-person classes outweighs any benefit from traditional teaching methods. The previous Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) pandemics have shown ways to shift medical education to online platforms. In the current pandemic, online meetings are being used to hold lectures, classes, laboratory practices, and clinical skills classes. For clerkship students, online platforms might not be feasible because this eliminates patient-doctor relationships, but it appears for now to be the only option. Some institutions have involved medical students in the frontlines altogether. We encourage all parties to constantly evaluate, review, and improve the efforts of continuing medical education, especially during this pandemic. Further research is needed to evaluate students’ performance after adopting e-learning and to discover the best methods in medical education in general and clerkship education in particular.

Relationship between anxiety and insomnia in clinical clerkship students during COVID-19 pandemic

“…Clerkship programs that were designed to involve bed-side teachings, emergency setting, and hands-on training have been greatly shifted into online learning, which cannot replace real-time, realpatient interactions to practice what they learned in pre-clinical settings. 31 This pandemic is undoubtedly an unexpected problem that none of the clerkship students were prepared for appropriately. As they train and prepare for their board examination to qualify as a competent doctor, thiese changes of study methods affect their practical preparedness to be a medical doctor, in this time of high demand for competent medical workers.…”

COVID-19 Pandemic and Academic Speculation of Medical Students of Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study

“…[12] Closing of health institutions, distance learning tactics, compliance to virtual learning, loss of clinical experience and classroom learning experience, no proper examination, disruption of professional development all leads to a disruption in the education of future physicians. [13,14,15] Although medical schools in Bangladesh adapted online teaching-learning from the very beginning of the pandemic,students of both govt. and non-govt.…”

Development of Digestive System Video for Learning Anatomy in Pandemic Era

“…Indonesia reported its first and second cases on March 2nd, 2020. This pandemic has affected almost all sectors ranging from financial and investment business to aviation, tourism, hotels, restaurants, shipping, and the education sector [1] [2]. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and challenged the well-established of both undergraduate and graduate medical education [3] and caused disruption to the medical education process and to healthcare systems worldwide.…”