Seyedesmaeil Azimi khatibani
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, IRAN
Title: COVID-19 impact and virtual pathology education
Biography
Biography: Seyedesmaeil Azimi khatibani
Abstract
Pathology education conventional methods have been disrupted by the Corona-Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, compelling a re-evaluation of the means of educational interactions from the undergraduate to the postgraduate level.
The challenges are partly due to transferring from face to face teaching to virtual education. Other reasons are shifting away from discipline-based teaching to organ-system based in medical curriculum and additional pressures on pathology faculties, such as increased demand for pathology services, lack of time, and learning resources.
Keeping the national standards in pathology education even in the constant disruptions from pandemic outbreaks are current challenges. Pathology expertise will need to use emergent technologies in providing educational material to ensure quality pathology education. However, virtualization of pathology education produces a value of digital pathology and web-based pathology training materials.
This article explores how the COVID-19 outbreak has challenged pathology education. It also has examined the potential implications of virtual technologies on modern pathology education for the future of pathology competency learning and assessment. We need new innovative strategies and we suggested the following steps to take advantage of the current opportunity to meet the challenges: evaluate the available digital training materials for formal pathology education, Invest in the virtual infrastructure for competency based pathology education, expand student/residents exposure to pathology educational cases through virtual platforms; Apply Digital pathology Solutions for Virtual pathology Education.