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      Digitalization plan in medical education during COVID-19 lockdown

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          Abstract

          Background

          The COVID-19 pandemic has enhanced the adoption of virtual learning after the urgent suspension of traditional teaching. Different online learning strategies were established to face this learning crisis. The present descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to reveal the different digital procedures implemented by the College of Medicine at Qassim University for better student performance and achievement.

          Methods

          The switch into distance-based learning was managed by the digitalization committee. Multiple online workshops were conducted to the staff and students about the value and procedures of such a shift. New procedures for online problem-based learning (PBL) sessions were designed. Students’ satisfaction was recorded regarding the efficiency of live streaming educational activities and online assessment.

          Results

          The students were satisfied with the overall shift into this collaborative e-learning environment and the new successful procedures of virtual PBL sessions. The digital learning tools facilitated the performance of the students and their peer sharing of knowledge. The role of informatics computer technologies was evident in promoting the students, research skills, and technical competencies.

          Conclusions

          The present work elaborated on the procedures and privileges of the transformation into digitalized learning, particularly the PBL sessions, which were appreciated by the students and staff. It recommended the adoption of future online theoretical courses as well as the development of informatics computer technologies.

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          A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019

          Na Zhu, Dingyu Zhang, Wenling Wang … (2020)
          Summary In December 2019, a cluster of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause was linked to a seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, China. A previously unknown betacoronavirus was discovered through the use of unbiased sequencing in samples from patients with pneumonia. Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily. Different from both MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, 2019-nCoV is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans. Enhanced surveillance and further investigation are ongoing. (Funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China and the National Major Project for Control and Prevention of Infectious Disease in China.)
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            Systematic review: impact of health information technology on quality, efficiency, and costs of medical care.

            Basit Chaudhry, Jerome K Wang, Shinyi Wu … (2006)
            Experts consider health information technology key to improving efficiency and quality of health care. To systematically review evidence on the effect of health information technology on quality, efficiency, and costs of health care. The authors systematically searched the English-language literature indexed in MEDLINE (1995 to January 2004), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Cochrane Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, and the Periodical Abstracts Database. We also added studies identified by experts up to April 2005. Descriptive and comparative studies and systematic reviews of health information technology. Two reviewers independently extracted information on system capabilities, design, effects on quality, system acquisition, implementation context, and costs. 257 studies met the inclusion criteria. Most studies addressed decision support systems or electronic health records. Approximately 25% of the studies were from 4 academic institutions that implemented internally developed systems; only 9 studies evaluated multifunctional, commercially developed systems. Three major benefits on quality were demonstrated: increased adherence to guideline-based care, enhanced surveillance and monitoring, and decreased medication errors. The primary domain of improvement was preventive health. The major efficiency benefit shown was decreased utilization of care. Data on another efficiency measure, time utilization, were mixed. Empirical cost data were limited. Available quantitative research was limited and was done by a small number of institutions. Systems were heterogeneous and sometimes incompletely described. Available financial and contextual data were limited. Four benchmark institutions have demonstrated the efficacy of health information technologies in improving quality and efficiency. Whether and how other institutions can achieve similar benefits, and at what costs, are unclear.
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              Barriers and solutions to online learning in medical education – an integrative review

              Diane O’Doherty, Marie Dromey, Justan Lougheed … (2018)
              Background The aim of this study is to review the literature on known barriers and solutions that face educators when developing and implementing online learning programs for medical students and postgraduate trainees. Methods An integrative review was conducted over a three-month period by an inter-institutional research team. The search included ScienceDirect, Scopus, BioMedical, PubMed, Medline (EBSCO & Ovid), ERIC, LISA, EBSCO, Google Scholar, ProQuest A&I, ProQuest UK & Ireland, UL Institutional Repository (IR), UCDIR and the All Aboard Report. Search terms included online learning, medical educators, development, barriers, solutions and digital literacy. The search was carried out by two reviewers. Titles and abstracts were screened independently and reviewed with inclusion/exclusion criteria. A consensus was drawn on which articles were included. Data appraisal was performed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Qualitative Research Checklist and NHMRC Appraisal Evidence Matrix. Data extraction was completed using the Cochrane Data Extraction Form and a modified extraction tool. Results Of the 3101 abstracts identified from the search, ten full-text papers met the inclusion criteria. Data extraction was completed on seven papers of high methodological quality and on three lower quality papers. Findings suggest that the key barriers which affect the development and implementation of online learning in medical education include time constraints, poor technical skills, inadequate infrastructure, absence of institutional strategies and support and negative attitudes of all involved. Solutions to these include improved educator skills, incentives and reward for the time involved with development and delivery of online content, improved institutional strategies and support and positive attitude amongst all those involved in the development and delivery of online content. Conclusion This review has identified barriers and solutions amongst medical educators to the implementation of online learning in medical education. Results can be used to inform institutional and educator practice in the development of further online learning. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12909-018-1240-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Inform Med Unlocked
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Inform Med Unlocked
                Title: Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
                Publisher: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.
                ISSN (Electronic): 2352-9148
                Publication date PMC-release: 17 September 2020
                Publication date (Electronic): 17 September 2020
                Electronic Location Identifier: 100432
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
                [2 ]Department of Medical Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
                [3 ]Department of Microbiology, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
                [4 ]Department of Anatomy and Histology, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
                [5 ]Department of Anatomy and Embryology, College of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
                [6 ]Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
                [7 ]Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
                [8 ]Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
                [9 ]Family and Community Medicine Department, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
                Author notes
                [∗ ]Correspondence: Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Qassim, Saudi Arabia.
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                Publisher ID: S2352-9148(20)30582-7 Publisher ID: 100432
                DOI: 10.1016/j.imu.2020.100432
                PMC ID: 7494503
                PubMed ID: 32959020
                SO-VID: c345320e-014f-4d03-b80f-b7740fb404df
                Copyright © © 2020 The Author(s)
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                Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

                History
                Date received : 25 August 2020
                Date revision received : 12 September 2020
                Date accepted : 13 September 2020
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                Keywords: digitalization,e-learning,medical education,online pbl,virtual classroom
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                Keywords: digitalization, e-learning, medical education, online pbl, virtual classroom

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