Transition to Effective Online Anatomical Sciences Teaching and Assessments in the Pandemic Era of COVID-19 Should be Evidence-Based

Priti L Mishall; Eiman M Abdel Meguid; Mohammed K Khalil; Lisa M J Lee

doi:10.1007/s40670-021-01435-3

Transition to Effective Online Anatomical Sciences Teaching and Assessments in the Pandemic Era of COVID-19 Should be Evidence-Based

Med Sci Educ. 2022 Jan 8;32(1):247-254. doi: 10.1007/s40670-021-01435-3. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Authors

Priti L Mishall^{1

2}, Eiman M Abdel Meguid³, Mohammed K Khalil⁴, Lisa M J Lee⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY F620SA10461 USA.
² Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA.
³ Centre for Biomedical Sciences Education, School of Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Belfast, UK.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, SC 29605 USA.
⁵ Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045 USA.

Abstract

The world has changed rapidly since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the education community has not been immune to these changes. With abrupt school closings and a rapid transition to online teaching and learning, the educational technologies have been stretched to their limits and pedagogic approaches blossomed. As the world strives to reestablish normalcy, it will be under the influence of the long-lasting impact of the pandemic. This manuscript provides recommendations for the online conversion of anatomical sciences curricula in health sciences programs. Strategic guidelines are emerging for building on these changes to enhance teaching and learning in the current pandemic era.

Keywords: Anatomy education; COVID-19 teaching; Online assessment; Synchronous/asynchronous learning.