Haroon Zainab, Azad Azad Ali, Sharif Mubashir, Aslam Ayesha, Arshad Komal, Rafiq Salma
Armed Forces Institute of Dentistry (AFID), Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Army Medical College, National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS), Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2020 Oct;30(10):129-131. doi: 10.29271/jcpsp.2020.supp2.129.
Coronavirus infecious disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought a myriad of challenges to the dental education. Amidst the quarantine and lockdown measures, face-to-face education is disrupted around the globe. Dental educators have come up with innovative solutions to resume dental education remotely. Different online platforms are being utilised for didactic teaching and learning as well as for students 2019; assessment and examination. Clinical learning has also shifted to virtual learning. Manikins and virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR)-based simulation devices along with haptic technology can be very helpful for skills training. However, some sorts of blended learning and virtual curriculum may be incorporated in dental education in the future. For this narrative review, a thorough in-depth review of the available literature, relevant to our field, was carried out. In this article, impact of COVID-19 on dental education has been discussed along with some solutions to these challenges. Key Words: COVID-19, Dental education, E-learning, Virtual/augmented reality.
2019年冠状病毒感染疾病（COVID-19）大流行给牙科教育带来了诸多挑战。在隔离和封锁措施期间，全球范围内的面对面教育受到干扰。牙科教育工作者想出了创新的解决方案来远程恢复牙科教育。不同的在线平台被用于理论教学以及学生评估和考试。临床学习也已转向虚拟学习。人体模型以及基于虚拟现实/增强现实（VR/AR）的模拟设备与触觉技术一起，对技能培训非常有帮助。然而，未来牙科教育可能会纳入某种形式的混合学习和虚拟课程。为了进行这篇叙述性综述，我们对与我们领域相关的现有文献进行了全面深入的回顾。在本文中，讨论了COVID-19对牙科教育的影响以及应对这些挑战的一些解决方案。关键词：COVID-19、牙科教育、电子学习、虚拟/增强现实
