Virtual vs Online: Insight From Medical Students. Comment on “Effectiveness of Virtual Medical Teaching During the COVID-19 Crisis: Systematic Review” (Preprint)

Abstract

UNSTRUCTURED COVID-19 has changed the landscape of medical education and it has brought virtual teaching to the forefront. As fifth year medical students studying at University College London (UCL), we understand the importance of virtual teaching in medical education and therefore we commend Wilcha for carrying out a systematic review to analyse its strengths and weaknesses. However, we would like to discuss a criticism we have of the literature search that was conducted. We believe the key terms used were too narrow. Subsequently, this has limited the amount of literature which was reviewed, the content of the review and the reliability of the studies used.