Open AccessLeveraging E-Learning Infrastructure in Times of Rapid Change: Use of the National Sexually Transmitted Diseases Curriculum in the Era of COVID-19
Author(s) -
Karin Bauer,
Maria A. Corcorran,
Jehan Z Budak,
Christine Johnston,
David H. Spach
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000001462
Subject(s) - curriculum , covid-19 , medicine , pandemic , medical education , sexually transmitted disease , family medicine , virology , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pedagogy , psychology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
The National Sexually Transmitted Diseases Curriculum is an e-learning platform. New registrations and learning group creations in March to April 2020 were compared with previous 12-month data. Substantial increases in registrations and learning groups demonstrate that the National Sexually Transmitted Diseases Curriculum was successfully leveraged to meet rapidly shifting training needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.