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. 2021 Mar 4;31(2):863-872.
doi: 10.1007/s40670-021-01253-7. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Mindful Medical Education Online

Catherine Haras  1 , Austin Calhoun  2 , Andrew Pj Olson  2 , Mark Rosenberg  2
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Mindful Medical Education Online

Catherine Haras et al. Med Sci Educ. .

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical education. In-person classes and clinical rotations were urgently canceled, followed by a historic and unprecedented migration to online teaching. Most medical school courses were not designed to be fully online, and faculty and students are novices in the process. The purpose of this article is to provide recommendations for educators to optimize their approach to online curricular transformation. Mindful teaching online creates presences that set climate and support discourse, establish routines that build practice, model professional expectations, and challenge but support learners.

Keywords: Community of inquiry; Learning; Medicine; Online; Teaching; Teaching presence.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of InterestNo conflicts of interest from Catherine Haras, Austin Calhoun, or Mark Rosenberg. Andrew Olson receives grant funding as above and receives an honorarium from Aquifer, a non-profit educational consortium that develops online virtual patient cases. This organization had no role in the preparation or writing of this manuscript.

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The Community of Inquiry (COI) model describes learning that takes place at the intersection of social, cognitive and teaching presence
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Low and high bandwidth and asynchronous and synchronous learning activities should be built into every online course
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