Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol. 11 issue 1 2021
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
From the pandemic’s front lines: A social responsibility initiative to develop an international free online emergency medicine course for medical students
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Title
Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol. 11 issue 1 2021
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
From the pandemic’s front lines: A social responsibility initiative to develop an international free online emergency medicine course for medical students
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
From the pandemic’s front lines: A social responsibility initiative to develop an international free online emergency medicine course for medical students
Subject
Electronic learning
Emergency medicine
Undergraduate training
COVID-19 pandemic
Emergency medicine
Undergraduate training
COVID-19 pandemic
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted medical education and forced medical schools to shift to remote teaching.
However, in many institutions, this shift was complicated by the lack of previous experience and resources as
well as the decreased educational time and effort due to increased clinical load. In April 2020, the International
Emergency Medicine (iEM) Education Project embarked upon a social responsibility initiative to ease and
facilitate this transition for emergency medicine clerkships. A 4-week open online emergency medicine core
content course for medical students covering 11 lessons and 37 topics was created. This course contains a total of
25 hours of content, 66 chapters curated from the free iEM Education Project 2018 eBook and Society of Academic
Emergency Medicine curriculum website and 131 videos granted freely by the commercial medical education
resources provider, Lecturio. In the first 24 hours, the website was visited 3127 times from 57 countries
in 6 continents. While online teaching is not a substitute for in-person clinical teaching, such initiatives can
provide resources to clinical teachers who are overwhelmed with clinical duties and an opportunity for medical
students from low-resource settings to continue their training safely during the pandemic.
However, in many institutions, this shift was complicated by the lack of previous experience and resources as
well as the decreased educational time and effort due to increased clinical load. In April 2020, the International
Emergency Medicine (iEM) Education Project embarked upon a social responsibility initiative to ease and
facilitate this transition for emergency medicine clerkships. A 4-week open online emergency medicine core
content course for medical students covering 11 lessons and 37 topics was created. This course contains a total of
25 hours of content, 66 chapters curated from the free iEM Education Project 2018 eBook and Society of Academic
Emergency Medicine curriculum website and 131 videos granted freely by the commercial medical education
resources provider, Lecturio. In the first 24 hours, the website was visited 3127 times from 57 countries
in 6 continents. While online teaching is not a substitute for in-person clinical teaching, such initiatives can
provide resources to clinical teachers who are overwhelmed with clinical duties and an opportunity for medical
students from low-resource settings to continue their training safely during the pandemic.
Creator
Guest editorial
Source
www.elsevier.com/locate/afjem
Publisher
elsevier
Date
15 November 2020
Contributor
peri irawan
Format
pdf
Language
english
Type
text
Files
Citation
Guest editorial, “Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol. 11 issue 1 2021
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
From the pandemic’s front lines: A social responsibility initiative to develop an international free online emergency medicine course for medical students,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed February 5, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2465.
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
From the pandemic’s front lines: A social responsibility initiative to develop an international free online emergency medicine course for medical students,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed February 5, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2465.