Post Pandemic Online Health Care Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

COVID-19 and subsequent declaration of lockdown, produced unforeseen crisis in the lives of people. As the world in recent years has not confronted a pandemic, there was chaos in various fields including educational sector. The educational sector in low and middle income countries like India were relying more on traditional face to face learning in almost all areas and healthcare education was not an exclusion. Post Lockdown created a challenging situation for healthcare education as the pandemic came in the midst of regular intensive academic and practical training. As rightly said “Necessity is the mother of Invention”, the faculty started “out of the box thinking” to reach the students at home. The era of the use of online, social media and videoconferencing platforms for teaching and knowledge transmissions started gaining momentum in India. But it has its own advantages, shortcomings and challenges.