How COVID-19 pandemic can lead to promotion of remote medical education and democratization of education?

Abstract

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been compared to 1918 and 1957 influenza pandemics which took many human lives. The lockdown of cities and educational organizations –which has not been happened since World War 2- has already disrupted education at all levels. Medical education has been affected by the spread of COVID-19 at both pre-clerkship and clerkship stages. Today, a great number of countries have announced that they temporarily switch their learning system to E-education for all students. However, we believe that rapid advancing technologies such as online social media, online databases, online multimedia and programs based on artificial intelligence and machine learning could transform the global education system and medical education as well.

Keywords

• covid-19
• medical education
• online
• virtual