Towards describing the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical radiography education: A systematic review
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Towards describing the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical radiography education: A systematic review
Abstract
Introduction: The sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant and rapid changes to the traditional ways of providing radiography education, including adaptations to teaching and learning styles as well as disruptions to students' clinical placement. This review explored the impact of the pandemic on clinical radiography education globally.
Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted on relevant databases, including PubMed, Science Direct, CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and SCOPUS. All relevant articles were critically appraised for quality and subjected to information extraction and results-based convergent synthesis.
Results: A total of 17 articles met the inclusion and exclusion criteria for this review. The key findings are themed around challenges and benefits with the introduction of new teaching and learning approaches and resilience exhibited by students during the pandemic to overcome: inadequate support and mentorship while transitioning to fully qualified professionals, challenges with PPE usage, and impact on personal and academic life.
Conclusions: Globally, radiography students experienced several challenges, especially during the initial acute phase of the pandemic. The pandemic-related challenges identified in this review could negatively influence the radiography student attrition rates, consequently worsening the existing radiography workforce shortage. Thus, urgent institutional level support systems and interventions would be necessary to mitigate the pandemic impact and improve the students' learning experience.
Introduction: L'apparition soudaine de la pandémie de COVID-19 a entraîné des changements importants et rapides dans les méthodes traditionnelles d'enseignement de la radiographie, notamment des adaptations des styles d'enseignement et d'apprentissage ainsi que des perturbations dans les stages cliniques des étudiants. Cette revue a exploré l'impact de la pandémie sur l'enseignement de la radiographie clinique au niveau mondial.
Méthodologie: Une recherche documentaire systématique a été menée sur les bases de données pertinentes, notamment PubMed, Science Direct, CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, et SCOPUS. Tous les articles pertinents ont fait l'objet d'une évaluation critique de la qualité et ont été soumis à une extraction d'informations et à une synthèse convergente basée sur les résultats.
Résultats: Dix-sept (17) articles au total ont répondu aux critères d'inclusion et d'exclusion de cet examen. Les principales conclusions portent sur les défis et les avantages liés à l'introduction de nouvelles approches d'enseignement et d'apprentissage et sur la résilience dont ont fait preuve les étudiants pendant la pandémie pour surmonter le manque de soutien et de mentorat pendant la transition vers des professionnels pleinement qualifiés, les défis liés à l'utilisation de l'EPI et l'impact sur la vie personnelle et universitaire.
Conclusions: À l'échelle mondiale, les étudiants en radiographie ont fait face à plusieurs défis, en particulier pendant la phase initiale aiguë de la pandémie. Les défis liés à la pandémie identifiés dans cette étude pourraient avoir une influence négative sur les taux d'attrition des étudiants en radiographie, aggravant ainsi la pénurie actuelle de main-d'œuvre en radiographie. Ainsi, des systèmes de soutien et des interventions urgentes au niveau institutionnel seraient nécessaires pour atténuer l'impact de la pandémie et améliorer l'expérience d'apprentissage des étudiants.
Keywords: COVID-19; Medical imaging; Radiography education.
Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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