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Education in Academic Emergency Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Our Experience From an Ongoing Crisis

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the suspension of the entire teaching program at the Medical University of Vienna till the end of the summer semester. As the department that is responsible for emergency medicine teaching, we adapted the program to continue the courses and maintain...

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Autores principales: Mueller, Matthias, Schriefl, Christoph, Holzer, Michael, Roeggla, Martin, Laggner, Anton N., Ettl, Florian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.592503
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author Mueller, Matthias
Schriefl, Christoph
Holzer, Michael
Roeggla, Martin
Laggner, Anton N.
Ettl, Florian
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Holzer, Michael
Roeggla, Martin
Laggner, Anton N.
Ettl, Florian
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description Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the suspension of the entire teaching program at the Medical University of Vienna till the end of the summer semester. As the department that is responsible for emergency medicine teaching, we adapted the program to continue the courses and maintain the learning progress. Our objective is to evaluate the number of courses conducted and report the methods used. Methods: Teaching was measured as credit hours per week (CHW) in accordance with the university's prospectus. One CHW represents 15 academic hours (45 min) in one semester. Webinars were conducted using the CISCO Webex Events®, Webex Training, and ZOOM®. The Moodle® was utilized for resuscitation courses. Results: Courses and clerkships equivalent to 80.2 out of 101.4 CHW (79.1%) could be held during the ongoing crisis in the summer semester. Courses in the winter semester were all completed. In the human medicine curriculum, 73.7 out of 94.9 CHW (77.7%) could be conducted. In the case of emergency lectures for the dentistry curriculum, all courses were conducted through webinars (6.5 CHW, 100%). After calculating the exact number of students in each class, it has been determined that courses and clerkships equivalent to 78.7% could be conducted. Conclusion: Despite the challenge of preparing for the treatment of numerous patients during the ongoing pandemic, we could shoulder a majority of our teaching responsibilities. Although sufficient skill training could not be imparted under these circumstances, we could provide sufficient theoretical knowledge to allow students to continue studies.
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spelling pubmed-76641552020-11-13 Education in Academic Emergency Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Our Experience From an Ongoing Crisis Mueller, Matthias Schriefl, Christoph Holzer, Michael Roeggla, Martin Laggner, Anton N. Ettl, Florian Front Public Health Public Health Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the suspension of the entire teaching program at the Medical University of Vienna till the end of the summer semester. As the department that is responsible for emergency medicine teaching, we adapted the program to continue the courses and maintain the learning progress. Our objective is to evaluate the number of courses conducted and report the methods used. Methods: Teaching was measured as credit hours per week (CHW) in accordance with the university's prospectus. One CHW represents 15 academic hours (45 min) in one semester. Webinars were conducted using the CISCO Webex Events®, Webex Training, and ZOOM®. The Moodle® was utilized for resuscitation courses. Results: Courses and clerkships equivalent to 80.2 out of 101.4 CHW (79.1%) could be held during the ongoing crisis in the summer semester. Courses in the winter semester were all completed. In the human medicine curriculum, 73.7 out of 94.9 CHW (77.7%) could be conducted. In the case of emergency lectures for the dentistry curriculum, all courses were conducted through webinars (6.5 CHW, 100%). After calculating the exact number of students in each class, it has been determined that courses and clerkships equivalent to 78.7% could be conducted. Conclusion: Despite the challenge of preparing for the treatment of numerous patients during the ongoing pandemic, we could shoulder a majority of our teaching responsibilities. Although sufficient skill training could not be imparted under these circumstances, we could provide sufficient theoretical knowledge to allow students to continue studies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7664155/ /pubmed/33194997 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.592503 Text en Copyright © 2020 Mueller, Schriefl, Holzer, Roeggla, Laggner and Ettl. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Holzer, Michael
Roeggla, Martin
Laggner, Anton N.
Ettl, Florian
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title Education in Academic Emergency Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Our Experience From an Ongoing Crisis
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title_short Education in Academic Emergency Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Our Experience From an Ongoing Crisis
title_sort education in academic emergency medicine during the covid-19 pandemic – our experience from an ongoing crisis
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.592503
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