Adeleke Olukayode A, Cawe Busisiwe, Yogeswaran Parimalaranie
Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha.
S Afr Fam Pract (2004). 2020 Dec 11;62(1):e1-e3. doi: 10.4102/safp.v62i1.5225.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the world as we knew it, and medical education is not an exception. Walter Sisulu University (WSU) has a distributed model of clinical training for the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) programme. To address the challenges occasioned by the pandemic, the Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health undertook a modification of its MBChB VI programme. The changes aim to ensure the protection of all stakeholders and maintain the integrity of the programme, including the assessment. Changes were made in the delivery of the programme and in the way people interact with one another. Continuous assessment was modified, and the oral portfolio examination was introduced as the summative assessment tool. Although COVID-19 threatened the traditional way of teaching and learning, it however provided us with the opportunity to refocus and reposition our undergraduate medical programme.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行改变了我们所熟知的世界，医学教育也不例外。沃尔特·西苏鲁大学（WSU）针对医学学士和外科学士（MBChB）课程采用分布式临床培训模式。为应对大流行带来的挑战，家庭医学与农村卫生系对其MBChB VI课程进行了修改。这些改变旨在确保所有利益相关者的安全，并维持该课程的完整性，包括评估环节。在课程交付方式以及人们相互交流的方式上都做出了改变。持续评估进行了调整，并引入了口头档案袋考试作为终结性评估工具。尽管COVID-19威胁到了传统的教学方式，但它也为我们提供了重新聚焦和重新定位本科医学课程的机会。
