Abby Saunders, PhD, MS, PA-C, is an assistant professor for the Physician Assistant Program at Seton Hall University in Nutley, New Jersey.
Michelle McWeeney, PhD, MS, PA-C, is an assistant professor for the Physician Assistant Program at Seton Hall University in Nutley, New Jersey.
J Physician Assist Educ. 2022 Dec 1;33(4):331-335. doi: 10.1097/JPA.0000000000000472.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted almost every aspect of life globally, with higher education one of many direct targets. Institutions and educators have been faced with urgent crises of how to conduct business as usual while maintaining expectations of high standards and uncompromised goals. As physician assistant (PA) educators at Seton Hall University, we rallied and brainstormed approaches to daily instruction to keep students on track and faculty both effective and sane. We tapped technological resources offered by our university, learned countless new skills, and adapted classroom activities to online virtual platforms. Creativity and flexibility became the norm as we modified the way we did everything while remaining laser focused on the ultimate objectives. Our intention was to provide insight, motivation, and, at a minimum, an example of how to do things differently when faced with roadblocks. We were inspired by an editorial by Mary Jo Bondy, DHEd, MHS, PA-C, former CEO of the Physician Assistant Education Association, in which she called for collective innovation, collaboration, publication, and circulation of stories. With that charge, we assembled a detailed account of how a didactic team within our faculty maneuvered the challenges created by COVID-19, in hopes of adding to the arsenal of small triumphs in this uncharted territory.
新冠疫情大流行扰乱了全球几乎所有生活领域，高等教育是受影响最大的领域之一。各机构和教育工作者面临着紧急危机，即如何在维持高标准和不妥协目标的同时维持正常运转。作为泽维尔大学的医师助理（PA）教育工作者，我们齐心协力，集思广益，寻找日常教学方法，以确保学生按计划学习，教职员工保持高效和理智。我们利用我们大学提供的技术资源，学习了无数新技能，并将课堂活动改编到在线虚拟平台上。在我们修改一切的方式的同时，创造力和灵活性成为了常态，同时始终保持对最终目标的关注。我们的目的是提供洞察力、动力，至少提供一个在遇到障碍时如何以不同方式做事的范例。我们受到了 Mary Jo Bondy 博士的启发，她是 PA 教育协会的前任首席执行官，在她的一篇社论中呼吁进行集体创新、协作、发表和传播故事。在这一呼吁下，我们详细描述了我们教师中的一个理论教学团队如何应对新冠疫情带来的挑战，希望为这个未知领域的小胜利增添力量。
