Psychiatric training program during the COVID-19 pandemic: An experience in Iran

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to report a redesigned psychiatric training program in the internship and the externship courses at Tehran University of medical sciences, in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: It is a retrospective cohort study which 531 externs and 381 interns enrolled. The stud...

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Autores principales: Mirsepassi, Zahra, Karimi, Elmira, Mohammadjafari, Atefeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9010015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35447537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2022.103130
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description OBJECTIVE: This study aims to report a redesigned psychiatric training program in the internship and the externship courses at Tehran University of medical sciences, in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: It is a retrospective cohort study which 531 externs and 381 interns enrolled. The students’ satisfaction and their exam scores were assessed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: Blended learning was used for clinical education which theoretical, case-based discussions; and assessments were provided online. Externs’ clinical scores and satisfaction were significantly higher while interns’ scores got worse. CONCLUSION: E-learning can be effective, applicable and acceptable in clinical education.
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spelling pubmed-90100152022-04-15 Psychiatric training program during the COVID-19 pandemic: An experience in Iran Mirsepassi, Zahra Karimi, Elmira Mohammadjafari, Atefeh Asian J Psychiatr Short Communication OBJECTIVE: This study aims to report a redesigned psychiatric training program in the internship and the externship courses at Tehran University of medical sciences, in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: It is a retrospective cohort study which 531 externs and 381 interns enrolled. The students’ satisfaction and their exam scores were assessed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: Blended learning was used for clinical education which theoretical, case-based discussions; and assessments were provided online. Externs’ clinical scores and satisfaction were significantly higher while interns’ scores got worse. CONCLUSION: E-learning can be effective, applicable and acceptable in clinical education. Elsevier B.V. 2022-07 2022-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9010015/ /pubmed/35447537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2022.103130 Text en © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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