Impacto da pandemia do SARS-COV-2 na educação médica: migração "compulsória" para o modelo remoto, uma visão preliminar de gestores da educação médica

INTRODUCTION: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic affected the educational models offered in medical courses. In this context, with the authorization to offer courses remotely, there is an unprecedented acceleration in the migration from the traditional model to the eLearning model, which was already occurring gradually in the Brazilian higher education system. Due to the social isolation to face the crisis, this model is being applied in full in many Higher-educational institutions (HEIs) in the country and may have repercussions on methodological changes in medical education. OBJECTIVES: To discuss the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on medical education, analyzing the migration to eLearning Modality. METHOD: A reflection was made from management meetings at two private universities based on the authors' experience in medical education management. RESULTS: The global pandemic context has impacted teaching within the scope of students, professors, and HEIs. The high investments in the migration of the teaching model and the high dropout rate have impacted the suspension of contracts for teachers from private HEIs. The inequality of technological access, unsuitable environments, and the poor quality of telephony/internet in the country can impact on academic performance. CONCLUSIONS: It is undeniable that medical education is suffering a profound transformation by this global health crisis. However, it is too early to say with certainty the size of this impact. In the future, it will be necessary to adapt the concept of evidence-based medical education to assess the practical repercussions of this pandemic in medical education.

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COVID-19 in China: Risk Factors and R0 Revisited

10.1101/2020.05.18.20104703 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Irtesam Mahmud Khan ◽

Wenyi Zhang ◽

Sumaira Zafar ◽

Yong Wang ◽

Junyu He ◽

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Keyword(s):

Virus Transmission ◽

Geographic Region ◽

Machine Learning Techniques ◽

Transmission Model ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Learning Techniques ◽

Visual Aid ◽

Spatiotemporal Clustering ◽

The Impact

The COVID-19 epidemic had spread rapidly through China and subsequently has proliferated globally leading to a pandemic situation around the globe. Human-to-human transmissions, as well as asymptomatic transmissions of the infection, have been confirmed. As of April 3rd, public health crisis in China due to COVID-19 is potentially under control. We compiled a daily dataset of case counts, mortality, recovery, temperature, population density, and demographic information for each prefecture during the period of January 11 to April 07, 2020 (excluding Wuhan from our analysis due to missing data). Understanding the characteristics of spatiotemporal clustering of the COVID-19 epidemic and R0 is critical in effectively preventing and controlling the ongoing global pandemic. The prefectures were grouped based on several relevant features using unsupervised machine learning techniques. We performed a computational analysis utilizing the reported cases in China to estimate the revised R0 among different regions for prevention planning in an ongoing global pandemic. Finally, our results indicate that the impact of temperature and demographic (different age group percentage compared to the total population) factors on virus transmission may be characterized using a stochastic transmission model. Such predictions will help prioritize segments of a given community/ region for action and provide a visual aid in designing prevention strategies for a specific geographic region. Furthermore, revised estimation and our methodology will aid in improving the human health consequences of COVID-19 elsewhere.

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Working University Students in Riau Archipelago: Dual Role and Depression

Journal Educative Journal of Educational Studies ◽

10.30983/educative.v5i2.3330 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 123

Author(s):

Nurul Retno Nurwulan ◽

Gjergji Selamaj

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Dropout Rate ◽

Dual Role ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Depression Prevention ◽

Working Students ◽

High Dropout Rate ◽

Second Year ◽

Riau Archipelago ◽

The Impact

University students working and studying at the same time for various reasons. The aim of the study is to review the impact of students’ dual role as students and workers on the depression rate of working university students in Batam, Indonesia. A comprehensive review of the literature revealed that working while studying does not necessarily affect students’ academic performance. However, depression is the most common health problem in university students. However, working students tend to have higher depression rate than non-working students. Depression in students may be the cause of the high dropout rate in Batam. It is important to administer depression-prevention intervention as early as possible, since the first- and second-year students are the most likely to get depressed Beragam alasan melatarbelakangi mahasiswa bekerja selama berkuliah. Penelitian ini mengulas dampak peran ganda sebagai mahasiswa dan pekerja kecenderungan depresi pada mahasiswa bekerja di Batam, Indonesia. Ulasan komprehensif dari literatur dan observasi langsung menunjukkan bahwa bekerja sambil berkuliah tidak mempengaruhi kinerja akademis mahasiswa. Meskipun demikian, mahasiswa bekerja cenderung memiliki tingkat depresi yang lebih tinggi daripada mahasiswa yang tidak bekerja. Depresi pada mahasiswa dapat menjadi penyebab tingginya tingkat dropout di Batam. Melakukan intervensi pencegahan depresi pada mahasiswa sedini mungkin merupakan hal yang sangat penting dikarenakan mahasiswa tingkat pertama dan kedua adalah yang paling rentan terhadap depresi.

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Undergraduate Medical Education towards Health for All: Progress, Pitfalls, Perspectives

Health Services Management Research ◽

10.1177/095148489200500103 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 17-31

Author(s):

Antonio C. M. Carvalho

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Medical Education ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Undergraduate Medical Education ◽

Poor Quality ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Education ◽

Primary Health ◽

The Impact

I discuss aspects of undergraduate medical education related to primary health care and analyse innovative programmes, with emphasis on problem-based methods and community-based education. Assessing the impact of these programmes shows problem-based learning is an interesting didactic exercise but not a necessary or sufficient condition for the adequacy of programmes to the Health for All (HFA) policy. Community-based education is pressed by several obstacles inside and outside educational institutions that put at risk its effectiveness as a real agent of change. Amongst these obstacles are political difficulties in building linkages amongst teaching institutions, services, and community; logistical problems in facilitating faculty and student work in the community; reactions from faculties; poor research opportunities in primary health care; pressures for more socially, professionally, and economically rewarding careers; biases in training the present generation of teachers; attempts to fulfil the social, behavioural, epidemiological, and preventive knowledge requirements for medical education by adding to an already overloaded information base; and shortage of relevant and significant sources of information for the medical students. Building corporations representing ‘innovative’ programmes, on one side, and ‘conservative’, ‘traditional’ ones, on the other, is not helpful and probably false. Each Programme should be assessed in its strength and weaknesses in the light of political decisions committed to change in unequal, poor-quality health systems.

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INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES IN MODERNIZATION TRAINING OF EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS IN THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

UNESCO Chair Journal "Lifelong Professional Education in the XXI Century" ◽

10.35387/ucj.1(3).2021.51-57 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 51-57

Author(s):

Оксана Товканець

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Education System ◽

Sustainable Growth ◽

Educational Management ◽

Education Management ◽

Higher Education System ◽

European Higher Education ◽

The Impact ◽

International Strategies ◽

Training Specialists

The article analyzes the impact of international strategies for modernization of education on the content of training specialists in educational management in the European higher education system. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the influence of international strategies for the modernization of education on the content of training specialists in educational management in the European system of higher education. The research was carried out on the basis of methods of theoretical generalization; comparative analysis; methods of grouping and systematization. It is revealed that in modern conditions, among the fac-tors of development of European higher education, three important ones are substantiated, which are direct-ly related to the development of the educational space: smart growth: development of the economy based on knowledge and innovation; sustainable growth: creating an economy based on the rational use of resources, ecology and competition; inclusive growth: promoting employment, social and territorial consensus. The strategic goal of the national policy of the EU in the field of education at the beginning of the XXI century there are problems of purposeful influence on the conditions and preconditions for the implementation of the rules of law, focusing on the benefits of modernization of educational activities in the period of transfor-mation, improvement of the entire education system and the mechanism of realization of the constitutional right to education. The areas that have the greatest impact on the process of training specialists in education management in European education are identified: focus on methodological support of activities within Eu-ropean education; standardization of educational content, licensing, certification and accreditation of educa-tional institutions, recognition of qualifications at the level of higher education; improving the education management system, decentralization and diversification in education. It is emphasized that the develop-ment of human capital is at the heart of the global development strategy

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Voting at the dawn of a global pandemic

10.31235/osf.io/a32r7 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Arndt Leininger ◽

Max Schaub

Keyword(s):

Disease Spread ◽

Local Elections ◽

Health Crisis ◽

German State ◽

Electoral Outcomes ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Electoral Choice ◽

Alignment Mechanism ◽

Causal Impact ◽

The Impact

What is the impact of a global health crisis on political behavior? We study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on electoral choice based on the case of Germany, one of the countries most heavily affected by the crisis. Our data come from the German state of Bavaria, where local elections were held right at the beginning of the pandemic. The elections took place early during the outbreak when there was still substantial variation in the extent to which individual counties and municipalities were affected by the outbreak. This variation provides a unique opportunity to study the causal impact of an event that would shortly after grow into an all-encompassing epidemic. We provide evidence that shows that the disease spread across the state in a mostly haphazard fashion. This lack of a discernible pattern coupled with within-county estimation of effects and a difference-in-differences strategy allow us to causally asses the effect of the spreading of the virus on electoral outcomes. Our results show that the crisis strongly and consistently benefited the dominant regional party, the CSU, and its candidates. For 3 known cases per 100,000 inhabitants, vote shares increased by about 4 percent. We explain our findings with a strategic-alignment mechanism, whereby voters vote into power candidates that they deem most likely to be able to solicit support from higher levels of government. Our findings emphasize the merit of forward-looking theories of voting and provide insights on the functioning of democracy during times of crisis.

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Pandemic Pivots: The Impact of a Global Health Crisis on the Dissertation in Practice

Impacting Education Journal on Transforming Professional Practice ◽

10.5195/ie.2021.165 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 5-10

Author(s):

Cassidy Alvarado ◽

Leyda Garcia ◽

Nikysha Gilliam ◽

Sydney Minckler ◽

Csilla Samay

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Doctoral Program ◽

Intentional Community ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Education Doctorate ◽

Critical Friends ◽

Leadership For Social Justice ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

New Methodologies ◽

The Impact

Five scholarly practitioners in an educational leadership for social justice doctoral program share their intentional, community-minded pivots during a global pandemic that disrupted their Dissertations in Practice (DiP). Embodying their Ed.D. program’s CPED framework (Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, 2019), the authors, at varying stages in the dissertation process, sought inventive solutions to COVID-19-related challenges that included the development of a new topic and research questions, adjusting study settings and participant pools, and embracing new methodologies to account for virtual-only approaches. Although uncertain how the global health crises would impact their DiP, by fostering a shared sense of community, the authors became critical friends, supporting each other in their personal, professional, and academic lives. Each narrative highlights the potential of oppositional praxis of threading identities of practice, reflection, and research–to respond creatively to the needs of their diverse research communities with compassion, vision, and agility.

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Use of Information Communication Technology by Medical Educators Amid COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Journal of Educational Technology Systems ◽

10.1177/0047239520966996 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 004723952096699 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ipshita Chatterjee ◽

Pinaki Chakraborty

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Information Communication Technology ◽

Care Providers ◽

Information Communication ◽

Educational Models ◽

Ict Tools ◽

Medical Educators ◽

The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life and all forms of education. However, the impact on medical education is unique since the need for continuity of training medical students is urgent and traditionally calls for hands-on training and a physical presence. This is further compounded by the unavailability of teachers who are also serving as frontline health-care providers in the pandemic. This article discusses the role and types of information communication technology (ICT) tools in filling the gaps and ensuring educational continuity in medical education, collaboration, and learning, across the world in the current scenario. A variety of online collaboration tools and digital interventions are discussed. A comparison between the various ICT tools being used by medical educators is also presented. The potential and corresponding challenges of revamping the medical education system and incorporating ICT tools in the long run have also been discussed. Our work can serve as the basis of further studies on creating digital educational models in medical education.

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Introducing Chinese Hanzi at the beginning of teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL)

Global Chinese ◽

10.1515/glochi-2020-0018 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 359-380

Author(s):

Aihong Yu ◽

Gretchen Geng

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Curriculum Development ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Dropout Rate ◽

High Dropout Rate ◽

Set Up ◽

The Impact ◽

Teaching Chinese ◽

International Curriculum Development

Abstract The high dropout rate of students studying Chinese is a concern for educators in teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL). However, very limited studies have been undertaken to investigate the impact of the important part of CFL learning ‘Hanzi’ in the successful teaching and learning of CFL. This paper therefore investigated the rationale and significance of Hanzi’ instruction and the need to integrate Hanzi instruction into teaching of CFL from the very beginning of teaching CFL. Readers will find this paper useful in understanding the importance of Hanzi instruction in teaching CFL, and how to construct a contemporary, international curriculum that can adequately address the fundamental concerns of the teaching and learning of CFL. This paper can be used to initiate a research agenda and inform an initiative thinking for curriculum development, to be used as a signpost to set up a conceptual framework on international curriculum development of CFL.

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Changes in Lifestyle and Dietary Habits during COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy: Results of an Online Survey

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu13061923 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 1923

Author(s):

Melania Prete ◽

Anna Luzzetti ◽

Livia S. A. Augustin ◽

Giuseppe Porciello ◽

Concetta Montagnese ◽

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Keyword(s):

Online Survey ◽

Dietary Habits ◽

Eating Habits ◽

Physically Active ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Added Sugars ◽

Validated Questionnaires ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

The Impact ◽

Italian Cohort

COVID-19 is an unprecedented global pandemic. On 12 March 2020, a lockdown order was issued in Italy in attempt to contain the health crisis. The study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on diet, physical activity, sleep quality, and distress in an Italian cohort. An online anonymous interview, which included validated questionnaires was created to compare lifestyle habits pre- and during the lockdown. Data analysis from 604 subjects with a mean age of 29.8 years was carried out using multivariate analysis. Compared to pre-COVID-19 times, 67% of people changed their eating habits and increased consumption of foods containing added sugars. Women and men with low adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) were more likely to be physically inactive (p < 0.0001 and p < 0.01, respectively). Results from logistic regression showed a three times higher risk of being inactive if adherence to the MedDiet was low (p < 0.0001), especially in men between 26 and 35 years. Lower levels of distress were reported in males who were physically active (89%) (p < 0.001). Our findings may help to identify effective lifestyle interventions during restrictive conditions.

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Perceptions on Entrepreneurial Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Education ◽

10.3389/feduc.2021.770710 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Pei Li ◽

Bing Li ◽

Ziyang Liu

Keyword(s):

Entrepreneurship Education ◽

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Influential Factors ◽

Education Management ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

Using Data ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Insight Into

The global pandemic of COVID-19 is a challenge for entrepreneurship education in universities and various organizations. Although positive responses to overcome the challenges of COVID-19 are being made, entrepreneurship strategies and policies might not meet students’ requirements. In order to enrich education management research, the main aim of this study is to provide a conceptual model and examine the relationship between perceptions, perceived positive attitudes on entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial intention (EI) during the COVID-19 crisis. The model is tested by using data from universities that are located in Shanghai, P.R. China. The study reveals that 1) perceived social norms and perceived self-efficacy positively influence perceived positive attitudes in entrepreneurship education; 2) there is no relationship between perceived entrepreneurial barriers and perceived positive attitudes in entrepreneurship education; 3) perceived positive attitudes in entrepreneurship education positively influence EI. The findings contribute to university and government policies on the development of entrepreneurial education. The framework of this study provides insight into the influential factors of entrepreneurship education that contribute to theoretical studies in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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