Undergraduate medical students’ obstacles and opportunities in medical education in COVID-19 pandemic
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COVID-19 pandemic affected medical education worldwide. During the pandemic, a lot of face-to-face teaching changes to online learning for undergraduate medical students. But, medical students after pass through some processes expected to be a clinician not only in virtual condition. This article provides information to know obstacles and opportunities during the pandemic. Research method of this article is literature review via PubMed. The keyword is “((undergraduate medical student) AND (medical education challenges)) AND (pandemic)”. Journal articles that used here is free full text articles, using English, and publication date is a year, and not a review article. Then, resulted 63 articles but 10 of them was chosen. Results showed the obstacles that students face in online learning includes technical issues, e-assessment system, feeling loneliness due to lack of social interaction, poor communication between lecturers and students. Despite of that, opportunities from COVID-19 pandemic are flexibility in time and place, telehealth potential to improve medical curriculum, and find optimum duration of study to be more effective in learning.
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