The Impact of COVID-19 on Preclerkship Teaching |Biomedgrid

Almost every system is impacted due to COVID-19 pandemic. The clinical aspect of the medical education system is also paying an unavoidable price. Here is an insight into the rapid transition in pre clerkship teaching from onsite to the online environment. This sudden shift in teaching away from the classroom was not a choicerather a need, for which the learners and educators were not well prepared. At the beginning of this transition some believed that this impromptu move to virtual learning, without planning, would result in chaos. However, few see this as an opportunity to introduce a hybrid curriculum in pre-clerkship years, with extra benefits for the learners which include but not limited to content control, sequencing, pace, time management, and the control to tailor them to meet their personal learning objectives [1]. Herein, we describe three teaching pedagogies (small group settings) that we continue during the pandemic with suitable alterations. Also, we describe the student and faculty insight into the challenges and how the challenges related to some of the benefits of online medical education. Knowledge of these challenges can be applied in the design, structure and moderation of online discussions to minimize the inconveniences and limitations posed by the use of these technologies.