Research Fellow and PhD candidate, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Resident Internal Medicine, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Inquiry. 2024 Jan-Dec;61:469580221148431. doi: 10.1177/00469580221148431.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a disease caused by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged initially as an isolated illness in December 2019 and later progressed to a global pandemic. Hard-hit areas were lockdown, massively disrupting medical education activities. Tele-education, previously used as a means of long-distance education emerged as a solution in the field of medical education. Tele-rotations for medical students, journal clubs and lectures via Microsoft teams, medical conferences via zoom, residency, and fellowship interviews online, all emerged during this pandemic. Some medical students and trainees found it enjoyable, cost-effective, time saving, feasible, unbiased, and preferred mode of education. Challenges related to supervision, availability, affordability, diminished communication, disturbance of streaming, or distractions due to environment. Tele-education has had a boom in the era of COVID-19. Research is needed further on effective mentoring and supervision of trainees via tele educational teaching models.
新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）是一种由新型严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒 2（SARS-CoV-2）引起的疾病，最初于 2019 年 12 月出现为一种孤立的疾病，后来发展成为全球大流行。受影响严重的地区实行了封锁，这极大地打乱了医学教育活动。远程教育作为一种远程教育手段，在医学教育领域应运而生。通过 Microsoft Teams 进行医学生远程轮转、期刊俱乐部和讲座，通过 zoom 进行医学会议，通过在线进行住院医师和研究员面试，这些都在这次大流行中出现。一些医学生和学员发现它令人愉快、具有成本效益、节省时间、可行、公正，是他们更喜欢的教育方式。但也存在一些挑战，如监督、可用性、可负担性、沟通减少、学习进度受干扰或环境分散注意力等。远程教育在 COVID-19 时代蓬勃发展。需要进一步研究通过远程教育教学模式对学员进行有效指导和监督。
