Open AccessImpact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Undergraduate Psychiatry Teaching, Educational Environment, and Learning Processes
Author(s) -
Qian Hui Chew,
Kang Sim
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advances in medical education and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-7258
DOI - 10.2147/amep.s320615
Subject(s) - pandemic , cohort , covid-19 , perception , psychology , cohort study , medicine , medical education , family medicine , psychiatry , clinical psychology , virology , disease , neuroscience , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant changes in the way undergraduate medical education is conducted including psychiatry teaching. In view of sparse data on how the perception of the undergraduate educational environment (EE) is affected by the pandemic, we sought to compare the ratings of EE and learning processes (motivation, engagement, equipping, appreciation of psychiatry) between the 2020 (during pandemic) and 2019 (before pandemic) cohorts of students, and examined how the perception of the EE would influence overall experience within the psychiatry rotation.