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Review
. 2021 Feb;34(2):220-223.
doi: 10.1111/tri.13788. Epub 2021 Jan 16.

COVID-19 and education: restructuring after the pandemic

Maria Irene Bellini  1   2   3 , Liset Pengel  4 , Luciano Potena  5 , Luca Segantini  2 ; ESOT COVID-19 Working Group
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Review

COVID-19 and education: restructuring after the pandemic

Maria Irene Bellini et al. Transpl Int. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

COVID-19 challenges to keep a valuable educational offer with lockdown measures and social distancing are reviewed. Scientific Societies had to think of new alternatives to maintain meetings with conversion to a virtual format and development of online resources, rapidly available and broadly accessible. Other in person activities as face-to-face clinics have been substituted by telemedicine; the same happened with surgical training in theatre, given the suspension of most of the operations. Finally, the need to share and communicate in a continuous evolving scenario, has impacted negatively the integrity of peer review process, not following the normal procedures to ensure scientific integrity and reproducibility in the earliest phases of the pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; education; pandemic; telemedicine; webinar.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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