Teaching strategy adaptations in undergraduate dental education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Autor: Bashary NZ; Lincoln Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA., Levine MH; Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, NYU College of Dentistry, New York, New York, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of dental education [J Dent Educ] 2024 Jun; Vol. 88 (6), pp. 865-871. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 16.
DOI: 10.1002/jdd.13493
Abstrakt: Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, dental institutions were challenged to rapidly adapt to the inability of teaching in-person lectures and pre-clinical simulations. Strategies had to be quickly developed to guarantee the safety of faculty and students, while also adhering to national guidelines to ensure that educational standards were met and students' graduations and entrance into residency programs were not delayed. This literature review assesses the novel strategies that dental schools created and implemented to teach in a distance-learning platform and evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of these strategies. In addition, this review talks about the lessons learned during the pandemic and the incorporation of successful strategies after the pandemic ended.
Methods: This review evaluated the literature using PubMed and ScienceDirect with the following keywords: "teaching strategies," "dental education," and "COVID-19." The search strategy yielded 15 articles that assessed relevant teaching strategies that were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Results: The literature described the swift response of dental institutions in implementing teaching strategies in response to the inability of continuing in-person teaching. An overwhelming majority of institutions moved their didactic lectures to online platforms. Several institutions implemented online simulations with virtual reality models, videos and discussion boards, standardized patient actors, and case-based discussions.
Conclusion: Many of the teaching strategies that were implemented as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic were highly effective. Dental schools were able to satisfy Commission on Dental Accreditation standards and meet students' requirements for graduation during the pandemic despite the rapid and unplanned shift away from in-person instruction and simulation secondary to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(© 2024 American Dental Education Association.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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