Gupta Arti, Jamir Limalemla, Aravindakshan Rajeev, Debnath Dhrubajyoti J, Sathiyanarayanan S, Kakkar Rakesh
Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati, Assam, India.
J Educ Health Promot. 2022 Jun 11;11:166. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_353_21. eCollection 2022.
In COVID pandemic, attending the continuing medical education, workshops, and conferences with physical attendance is not possible. We designed, developed, and hosted the first of its kind academic virtual/online conference at par with an in-person academic conference to disseminate the expertise of the renowned subject experts along with researchers to present their research work due to the ongoing pandemic. We, in this article, had summarized the most critical steps in order to make the process easier for first-timers while providing our more comprehensive walkthroughs on each step. We choose a live session of the speakers on the Zoom meeting mode to retain the atmosphere of a live conference. WhatsApp, Google (Google Meet and E-mail), and Kahoot were other platforms to communicate with speakers, researchers, and participants to seamlessly participate. A number of advantages in terms of protection for delegates/speakers and their families came from the Virtual Conference on Nutrition and Health, restricting the spread of COVID-19, low budget for organizers, economically much cheaper alternatives both for speakers and participants, dissemination of knowledge, time productive, and meeting research paper presentation eligibility for a professional course. When one is new to technology, try adding an innovative aspect as a starting point to future virtual and in-person events, and seeing how it works is imperative. Ensuring Internet bandwidth, updated hardware, or webcam and/or microphone functionality at the participant end is critical.
在新冠疫情期间，亲自参加继续医学教育、研讨会和会议是不可能的。我们设计、开发并主办了同类首个学术虚拟/在线会议，其水准与线下学术会议相当，目的是在疫情持续的情况下，传播知名学科专家的专业知识，同时让研究人员能够展示他们的研究工作。在本文中，我们总结了最关键的步骤，以便让首次尝试者的流程更轻松，同时我们还对每个步骤进行了更全面的讲解。我们选择在Zoom会议模式下进行演讲者的现场直播，以保留现场会议的氛围。WhatsApp、谷歌（谷歌Meet和电子邮件）以及Kahoot是与演讲者、研究人员和参与者沟通以无缝参与的其他平台。营养与健康虚拟会议在保护代表/演讲者及其家人方面有诸多优势，包括限制新冠病毒的传播、组织者预算低、对演讲者和参与者来说经济成本低得多的替代方案、知识传播、节省时间以及满足专业课程的研究论文展示资格要求。当一个人对技术不熟悉时，尝试在未来的虚拟和线下活动中加入创新元素作为起点，并观察其效果是很有必要的。确保参与者端的网络带宽、更新硬件或网络摄像头和/或麦克风功能至关重要。
