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Student and Educator Perspectives of Adapting to Remote Health Professions Education: A Mixed-Methods Study

During the COVID-19 pandemic, universities across the world transitioned rapidly to remote education. Engaging with a curriculum that has been transitioned from in-person to remote education mode is likely to impact how students and educators adapt to the changes and uncertainties caused by the pand...

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Autores principales: Sarkar, Mahbub, Liu, Karen, Kumar, Arunaz, Ilic, Dragan, Morphet, Julia, Maloney, Stephen, Davis, Elizabeth, Palermo, Claire
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9196894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712112
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.834228
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author Sarkar, Mahbub
Liu, Karen
Kumar, Arunaz
Ilic, Dragan
Morphet, Julia
Maloney, Stephen
Davis, Elizabeth
Palermo, Claire
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description During the COVID-19 pandemic, universities across the world transitioned rapidly to remote education. Engaging with a curriculum that has been transitioned from in-person to remote education mode is likely to impact how students and educators adapt to the changes and uncertainties caused by the pandemic. There is limited knowledge about individual differences in students' and educators' adaptability to remote education in response to the pandemic. This paper explored healthcare students' and educators' adaptability experiences to remote education. Drawing on pragmatism, a convergent mixed-methods design was adopted. Data were collected between May and August in 2020 using an online survey, followed by interviews with students and educators of five large health courses at an Australian research-intensive University. Data included 476 surveys and seven focus group interviews with 26 students, and 95 surveys and 17 individual interviews with educators. Results were interpreted through an integration of quantitative and qualitative elements from student and educator experiences. Findings indicated that students were less adaptable than educators. Whilst remote learning was less appealing than in-person learning, some students adapted well to the new learning environment. Limited social learning, transmissive pedagogy, and lack of technical and non-technical skills were identified as factors that impacted upon the experience of students and educators. Navigating the challenges associated with remote education provided students and educators with a unique opportunity to improve adaptability—an attribute critical for future uncertainties in healthcare practice.
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spelling pubmed-91968942022-06-15 Student and Educator Perspectives of Adapting to Remote Health Professions Education: A Mixed-Methods Study Sarkar, Mahbub Liu, Karen Kumar, Arunaz Ilic, Dragan Morphet, Julia Maloney, Stephen Davis, Elizabeth Palermo, Claire Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine During the COVID-19 pandemic, universities across the world transitioned rapidly to remote education. Engaging with a curriculum that has been transitioned from in-person to remote education mode is likely to impact how students and educators adapt to the changes and uncertainties caused by the pandemic. There is limited knowledge about individual differences in students' and educators' adaptability to remote education in response to the pandemic. This paper explored healthcare students' and educators' adaptability experiences to remote education. Drawing on pragmatism, a convergent mixed-methods design was adopted. Data were collected between May and August in 2020 using an online survey, followed by interviews with students and educators of five large health courses at an Australian research-intensive University. Data included 476 surveys and seven focus group interviews with 26 students, and 95 surveys and 17 individual interviews with educators. Results were interpreted through an integration of quantitative and qualitative elements from student and educator experiences. Findings indicated that students were less adaptable than educators. Whilst remote learning was less appealing than in-person learning, some students adapted well to the new learning environment. Limited social learning, transmissive pedagogy, and lack of technical and non-technical skills were identified as factors that impacted upon the experience of students and educators. Navigating the challenges associated with remote education provided students and educators with a unique opportunity to improve adaptability—an attribute critical for future uncertainties in healthcare practice. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9196894/ /pubmed/35712112 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.834228 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sarkar, Liu, Kumar, Ilic, Morphet, Maloney, Davis and Palermo. https://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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