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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Education

Date Submitted: Jan 7, 2021
Date Accepted: Apr 14, 2021

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

Virtual vs Online: Insight From Medical Students. Comment on “Effectiveness of Virtual Medical Teaching During the COVID-19 Crisis: Systematic Review”

Kaini S, Motie LZ

Virtual vs Online: Insight From Medical Students. Comment on “Effectiveness of Virtual Medical Teaching During the COVID-19 Crisis: Systematic Review”

JMIR Med Educ 2021;7(2):e27020

DOI: 10.2196/27020

PMID: 33988518

PMCID: 8128047

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Virtual vs online: an insight from medical students

  • Shahil Kaini; 
  • Lucinda Zahrah Motie

ABSTRACT

COVID-19 has changed the landscape of medical education and it has brought virtual teaching to the forefront. As fifth year medical students studying at University College London (UCL), we understand the importance of virtual teaching in medical education and therefore we commend Wilcha for carrying out a systematic review to analyse its strengths and weaknesses. However, we would like to discuss a criticism we have of the literature search that was conducted. We believe the key terms used were too narrow. Subsequently, this has limited the amount of literature which was reviewed, the content of the review and the reliability of the studies used.


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Please cite as:

Kaini S, Motie LZ

Virtual vs Online: Insight From Medical Students. Comment on “Effectiveness of Virtual Medical Teaching During the COVID-19 Crisis: Systematic Review”

JMIR Med Educ 2021;7(2):e27020

DOI: 10.2196/27020

PMID: 33988518

PMCID: 8128047

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