Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected healthcare systems worldwide. The disruption to hospital routines has affected continuing medical education (CME) for specialty trainees (STs). We share our academic institution's experience in...
Highlights
Continuing medical education (CME) refers to structured, scheduled sessions directed toward all specialty trainees (STs) within a specialty training programme
With this pandemic likely to last until this year’s end, we need to keep our STs equipped to deal with the continual non-COVID-19 cases and ready to face an ever-growing set of unmet clinical needs that are being postponed so we can deal with the current crisis
The development of user-friendly and accessible videoconferencing applications coupled with the widespread usage of smartphones and nationwide stability of 4G networks have made videoconferencing an effective option in transiting postgraduate medical education to virtual platforms
Summary
Continuing medical education during a pandemic: an academic institution’s experience. Abhiram Kanneganti ,1 Ching-Hui Sia,[2,3] Balakrishnan Ashokka ,4,5 Shirley Beng Suat Ooi[6,7]. ►► Additional material is published online only. To view please visit the journal online (http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2 020-137840). To cite: Kanneganti A, Sia C-H, Ashokka B, et al Postgrad Med J 2020;96:384–386
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