The COVID-19 pandemic: higher medical education challenges and responses

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Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has become a challenge to higher education worldwide, affecting roughly over 90% of the student community. Due to the pandemic issues, it was essential to adjust the educational process to changing circumstances. Efforts to curb the spread of the disease, including social distancing and self-isolation, have led to the need of initiating a new approach of education and developing effective communications in medical education with the organization of online education from 23.04.2020. The Saint Petersburg state pediatric medical University of the Ministry of health of Russia has adopted the Discord platform for distance learning. Training courses have been organized for physicians working in hospitals that have been sorted out to operate with patients with coronavirus infection using the Moodle platform with access to register and monitor trainees as well. Instructing teachers to work in these Internet scopes required fewest time, which allowed them to switch to distance learning in due time. In order to attest the timeliness and adequacy of the response of the higher medical education system in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in this article, the experience of the transfer of the Department of infectious diseases of adults and epidemiology to running educational activities in remote mode. The possibility of conducting online classes not only theoretical, but also practical in the specialties of infectious diseases and epidemiology with students, residents, postgraduates and physicians was demonstrated.

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Dmitry O. Ivanov

St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation

Author for correspondence.
Email: doivanov@yandex.ru

MD, PhD, Dr Med Sci, Professor, Rector

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Yury S. Alexandrovich

St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation

Email: jalex1963@mail.com

MD, PhD, Dr Med Sci, Prof., Head, Department of Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Emergency Paediatrics of the FP and AdE

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Vasiliy I. Orel

St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation

Email: viorel56@list.ru

MD, PhD, Dr Med Sci, Associate Professor, Head, Department of Social Pediatrics and Public Health Organization AF and DPO

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Elena V. Esaulenko

St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation

Email: eve-gpmu@mail.ru

Dr Med Sci, Professor, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases in Adults and Epidemiology

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Kseniya E. Novak

St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation

Email: kseniya.novak@mail.ru

MD, PhD, Assistant, Department of Infectious Diseases in Adults and Epidemiology, Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Liliya V. Ditkovskaya

St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation

Email: liliya-ditkovskaya@yandex.ru

MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology and Abilitology, Faculty of Postgraduate Education

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Valentina V. Basina

St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation

Email: v.basina@mail.ru

Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases in Adults and Epidemiology

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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