Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2021136
Title: Learning during the pandemic: Perspectives of medical students in Singapore
Authors: Ng, IKS
Zhang, VRY
Tseng, FS
Tay, DSH
Lee, SS 
Lau, TC 
Keywords: COVID-19
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Singapore
Students, Medical
Issue Date: 1-Aug-2021
Publisher: Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Citation: Ng, IKS, Zhang, VRY, Tseng, FS, Tay, DSH, Lee, SS, Lau, TC (2021-08-01). Learning during the pandemic: Perspectives of medical students in Singapore. Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore 50 (8) : 638-642. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2021136
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted medical education, particularly affecting clinical-year students. Educational institutions often had to halt, shorten or impose significant restrictions on their hospital rotations due to strict infection control and social-distancing guidelines implemented in tertiary healthcare institutions, as well as manpower and logistical constraints amid the pandemic. Thus, distance-based learning platforms such as online lectures and case-based teaching were increasingly adopted in place of bedside and face-to-face tutorials. While interactive virtual case-based discussions are generally useful in imparting clinical reasoning skills to medical students, they are unfortunately not able to fully replicate the experience of clerking, examining and managing real patients in the wards, which is a quintessential process towards building clinical acumen and attaining core clinical competencies. Therefore, for final year medical students who are preparing for their Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) examinations, many are naturally concerned by how learning in this “new normal” may affect their ability to make the transition to become competent junior doctors. As such, we seek to share our learning experiences as the first batch of medical students to have completed our entire final year of clinical education amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and offer 4 practical suggestions to future batches of students on how to adapt and optimise clinical learning under these circumstances: actively engaging in virtual learning, making the most of every clinical encounter, learning how to construct peer teaching/practice sessions, and maintaining physical and psychological well-being.
Source Title: Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/207137
ISSN: 03044602
DOI: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2021136
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