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. 2021 Jan 25;31(2):805-812.
doi: 10.1007/s40670-020-01186-7. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Remote Medical Education: Adapting Kern's Curriculum Design to Tele-teaching

Jordan Taylor Said  1 , Andrea Wershof Schwartz  1   2   3
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Remote Medical Education: Adapting Kern's Curriculum Design to Tele-teaching

Jordan Taylor Said et al. Med Sci Educ. .

Abstract

COVID-19 has necessitated a rapid shift to the remote delivery of medical education. We present a timely collection of tips, techniques, and strategies for the facilitation of remote teaching sessions and modification of curriculum design, assessment, and evaluation. We step through Kern's six-step curriculum design, recommending to (1) consider session necessity and a variety of teaching models; (2) inform your session with surveys and polls; (3) keep session endpoints consistent; (4) make the most of technology and translate in-person strategies to virtual forms; (5) engage with individual learners and eliminate distractions; and (6) consider online methods of assessment and evaluation methods.

Keywords: COVID-19; Curriculum design; Medical education; Online teaching; Remote medical education; Tele-teaching; Undergraduate medical education; Video conferencing.

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Conflict of InterestThe authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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