Shehata, M.H.; Prabu Kumar, A.; Arekat, M.R.; Atwa, H.; Ahmed, S.A.; Deifalla, A.H. Twelve Tips to Successfully Conducting Virtual Clinical Assessment Using Zoom™ Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic. Preprints2020, 2020060171. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0171.v1
APA Style
Shehata, M.H., Prabu Kumar, A., Arekat, M.R., Atwa, H., Ahmed, S.A., & Deifalla, A.H. (2020). Twelve Tips to Successfully Conducting Virtual Clinical Assessment Using Zoom™ Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0171.v1
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Shehata, M.H., Samar A. Ahmed and Abdel Halim Deifalla. 2020 "Twelve Tips to Successfully Conducting Virtual Clinical Assessment Using Zoom™ Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0171.v1
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world of medical education, moving it years ahead of time into the future. Many concepts needed to be changed, so did the methodologies. Nevertheless, clinical assessment remained tricky. This work highlights the outcome of the work of College of Medicine and Medical Sciences at the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain in performing virtual clinical examination using Zoom™. Tips in this article are meant to help plan, implement and evaluate clinical assessments virtually.
Keywords
COVID-19; assessment; online; virtual; OSCE
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
Copyright:
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The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
Comment:
A madter piece. Innovative hands-on experience that has proved to be applicable. Hopefully we can implement in all our Faculties.
Much appreciated
Received:
18 June 2020
Commenter:
Dr.Padmavathi Ramaswamy
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Comment:
The topic, virtual clinical assessment presented in the article is very interesting and educational. I appreciate the insights of the authors in the area of online education. It is very clearly written, thought provoking and informative. Article like this is timely for the current situation. The 12 steps elaborated in this article is applicable to any online educational system and contains sound practical advice. It will be useful to the readers if the authors also could point out the limitations or the areas of concern in using Zoom. The authors work is commendable in bringing such vital information to address training imperatives in the new normal.
Received:
1 July 2020
Commenter:
Gehan Khalaf
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Comment:
This article is reflecting an amazing and excellant work. It provide us with a detailed practical steps to implement online OSCE. It is well written and highly organized. Thank you to authors for this valuable and informative article.
Commenter:
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
Much appreciated
Commenter: Dr.Padmavathi Ramaswamy
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
Commenter: Gehan Khalaf
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.