Open AccessWill COVID-19 drive innovation within medical education and residency training?
Author(s) -
Youssef Kharbach,
Abdelhak Khallouk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
integrative journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-8218
DOI - 10.15342/ijms.7.153
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , government (linguistics) , covid-19 , medical education , quality (philosophy) , distance education , quarantine , public health , distancing , public relations , medicine , political science , psychology , nursing , pedagogy , engineering , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , pathology
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now declared as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by The World Health Organization (WHO). Thus, on March 22 the Moroccan government adopted the texts relating to the implementation of the state of health emergency including quarantine and physical distancing. Subsequently, students, residents, and faculty should adapt to this unpredictable situation. Our medicine faculty had quickly transitioned the entire medical education program to online formats to prevent delays in educational progress. As professors, we have the mission of maintaining high-quality resident education. Technology gave us the possibility to ensure correct medical education. Professors of our faculty are sharing their practices with their peers to satisfy graduation requirements on time and achieve quality online learning.