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Medical dosimetry virtual clinical education: Mentors’ perspectives

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the United States in early 2020, and many universities began offering their curriculum remotely. The majority of medical dosimetry programs started to offer both didactic and clinical education in a virtual setting. With COVID-19 social distancing and patient protectiv...

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Autores principales: Baker, Jamie, Dehghanpour, Mahsa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association of Medical Dosimetrists. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36804798
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meddos.2023.01.004
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description The COVID-19 pandemic affected the United States in early 2020, and many universities began offering their curriculum remotely. The majority of medical dosimetry programs started to offer both didactic and clinical education in a virtual setting. With COVID-19 social distancing and patient protective measures, many clinical medical dosimetrists also began to work in a remote or hybrid setting. Medical dosimetry students interact and learn from their clinical mentors in this remote clinical environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perspective of medical dosimetry mentors concerning the effectiveness of virtual clinical education for medical dosimetry students as a result of COVID-19. The Medical Dosimetry Mentor Perspective on Virtual Clinical Education (MedDos_VCE) survey measured medical dosimetry mentors’ perceptions of the students’ virtual clinical experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The subject of the study was medical dosimetry mentors who participated in a remote clinic due to the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020. The MedDos_VCE questionnaire measured (1) the mentors’ assessment of instructional quality in remote clinical education; (2) opportunities for and quality of interaction between students and medical dosimetry mentors; and (3) suggestions for success from medical dosimetry mentors for students and other mentors who are participating in virtual clinical education. The majority of the clinical mentors were satisfied with the quality of virtual clinical education and students’ learning outcomes. They felt that students experienced a good mix of patients, problems, and clinical experience and engaged in the day-to-day activities of a medical dosimetrist. Challenges exist and mentors offered practical suggestions for success for students and mentors in the virtual clinical environment.
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spelling pubmed-99378722023-02-21 Medical dosimetry virtual clinical education: Mentors’ perspectives Baker, Jamie Dehghanpour, Mahsa Med Dosim Article The COVID-19 pandemic affected the United States in early 2020, and many universities began offering their curriculum remotely. The majority of medical dosimetry programs started to offer both didactic and clinical education in a virtual setting. With COVID-19 social distancing and patient protective measures, many clinical medical dosimetrists also began to work in a remote or hybrid setting. Medical dosimetry students interact and learn from their clinical mentors in this remote clinical environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perspective of medical dosimetry mentors concerning the effectiveness of virtual clinical education for medical dosimetry students as a result of COVID-19. The Medical Dosimetry Mentor Perspective on Virtual Clinical Education (MedDos_VCE) survey measured medical dosimetry mentors’ perceptions of the students’ virtual clinical experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The subject of the study was medical dosimetry mentors who participated in a remote clinic due to the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020. The MedDos_VCE questionnaire measured (1) the mentors’ assessment of instructional quality in remote clinical education; (2) opportunities for and quality of interaction between students and medical dosimetry mentors; and (3) suggestions for success from medical dosimetry mentors for students and other mentors who are participating in virtual clinical education. The majority of the clinical mentors were satisfied with the quality of virtual clinical education and students’ learning outcomes. They felt that students experienced a good mix of patients, problems, and clinical experience and engaged in the day-to-day activities of a medical dosimetrist. Challenges exist and mentors offered practical suggestions for success for students and mentors in the virtual clinical environment. American Association of Medical Dosimetrists. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2023 2023-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9937872/ /pubmed/36804798 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meddos.2023.01.004 Text en © 2023 American Association of Medical Dosimetrists. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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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