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Year :2021
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Month :
July-August
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Volume :
10
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Issue :
3
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Page :
AV01 - AV03
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Learning Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic- A Medical Student’s Perspective
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Correspondence Address :
Amey Subodh Pathak, Sunita Arvind Athavale, Sunita Arvind Athavale,
Additional Professor, Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
E-mail: sunita.anatomy@aiimsbhopal.edu.in
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Introduction: The educational process has witnessed unprecedented disruption during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Educators and learners across the globe are struggling to cope up with the testing times. Medical education, owing to its unique character and challenges, has been hit hard. Medical educational institutes while gearing up for preparedness to tackle the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are also grappling with maintaining continuity in the ongoing curriculum. Medical students find themselves in a perplexing situation, forcing them to pursue off-campus online training whilst staying away from labs, clinics, and other on-campus learning modes. However, this unwelcome break introduced newer alleyways of learning online which the tech-savvy newer generation is adept at. However, this medium falls short of replicating the face to face student-teacher, peer to peer, doctor-patient interaction which is vital to achieving competence as a physician. Now, that the situation seems to be slowly limping towards normal, it has left a profound impact on the teaching-learning process.
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