Abstract
Electronic learning, as the name implies, is a non-traditional form of teaching where the student is not always physically present in the same time or place as the educator. Today, this largely means using the Internet to provide students with educational materials, while attempting to deliver a more personal experience that is more suited to the student’s schedule and learning style. From the institution’s perspective, e-learning has allowed for increased access and capacity, diversified the student population, and thereby increased market share in the educational market. With the inherent importance of a high quality medical education, both undergraduate and graduate, many have advocated against e-learning citing lack of appropriate technology, discrepancy in instructional methodology, and lack of consistency in paradigmatic institutionalization of e-learning. The focus of this review is to assess such attitudes toward e-learning, and the efficacy and benefits of e-learning in anesthesiology resident education at present.
Highlights
As technology has advanced, changed, and at times challenged traditional medical care, it has found its way into the medical classroom
Butterworth et al [16] designed a study to determine if mentors improve learning outcomes in distance learning continuing medical education (CME) for both rural and urban physicians in Nepal
There exists a lack of a consistent peer review model and a singular set of criteria for study evaluation, three aspects of e-learning have been consistently explored and perhaps provide the most important insight into the current uses and usefulness of e-learning
Summary
E-Learning, Distance Learning, Online Learning in the setting of Medical Education: A Review of Current Literature.
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