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COVID 19 and Dental Education: Transitioning from a Well-established Synchronous Format and Face to Face Teaching to an Asynchronous Format of Dental Clinical Teaching and Learning
Author(s) -
Melanie Nasseripour,
Jonathan Turner,
Susha Rajadurai,
Jonathan San Diego,
Barry Quinn,
Anitha Bartlett,
Ana Angelova Volponi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of medical education and curricular development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2382-1205
DOI - 10.1177/2382120521999667
Subject(s) - asynchronous communication , asynchronous learning , covid-19 , face to face , pandemic , face (sociological concept) , medical education , computer science , dental practice , online teaching , distance education , dental education , blended learning , mathematics education , teaching method , psychology , medicine , educational technology , synchronous learning , dentistry , sociology , cooperative learning , social science , philosophy , computer network , pathology , epistemology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The Covid-19 pandemic made it necessary to adopt and establish complete or partial online delivery of our clinical teaching and learning. We developed an alternative approach with a combination of Problem based Learning asynchronous fora and Teacher-facilitated synchronous online discussions. Our aim is to share our educational practice and highlight the requirements and constraints, advantages and challenges of such an approach. It allowed a more student-centred experience, but clinical simulation and face-to-face patient care remain necessary. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of dental education for the foreseeable future, with a reduced number of patients in dental clinics. Further study is therefore necessary to understand the lived experience of students and teachers to the adopted online teaching and learning approach.

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