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. 2023 Mar 24:13:19.
doi: 10.12688/mep.19613.1. eCollection 2023.

Practical tips for moving your patient panel online

Dimitrios Papanagnou  1 , Nethra Ankam  2 , Jordan Feingold-Link  1 , Maria Poluch  1 , Jared Kilpatrick  3 , Andres Fernandez  4 , Urvashi Vaid  5 , Deborah Ziring  5
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Practical tips for moving your patient panel online

Dimitrios Papanagnou et al. MedEdPublish (2016). .

Abstract

Patient panels are an inspiring, highly rated educational tool to complement course goals and objectives for students in medical education programs. The COVID-19 pandemic brought challenges on the ability to successfully host in-person patient panels. These challenges resulted in the need to pivot in-person patient panels to online platforms, while still ensuring the quality and intimacy of patient narratives. In this 12 tips article, we share lessons learned in transitioning patient panels in our health systems science curriculum to an online experience for students enrolled in a pre-clinical medical education program.

Keywords: inclusive learning; patient panels; technology; undergraduate medical education; virtual learning.

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