Manasik Hassan¹
Ahmed Alhammadi², Eman Al Maslamani² and Magda Yousef²
1 Hamad Medical Corporation(HMC) & Weill-Cornell Medical College Qatar
2 SIDRA medicine

New global situation of COVID19 pandemic mandate the transition of medical education and teaching from physical to rapidly expanding technology based teaching (virtual learning) creating challenging in effecting a successful learning platform in busy sitting. 

Virtual learning and learning platform define as a range of integrated web-based applications that provide teachers and learners with information, tools, and resources to support and enhance educational delivery and management. 

Constructing an effective virtual learning platform need multiples phases and strategies to accommodate it into the daily busy clinical practice. 

Workshop Structure: 

participants will be engaged in several activities: 

(1) Interactive didactic introduction highlights the history; definition of virtual learning platform and important needed elements and it is significance in the virtual teaching and education in the clinical sitting. 

(2) Engagement in discussions and reflections on video-clips in how to create and build the virtual platform and identify necessary fundamentals needed for it is successful. 

(3) In small groups table discussion; participants will identify barriers to implement virtual learning platform in a daily busy clinical environment 

(4) At the end we will share some measures to assess the effectiveness of virtual learning platform on patient outcomes and learners’ behaviors, skills and knowledge. 

Who should attend 

The workshop welcomes all stakeholders in medical education, physicians, training program leaders, faculty development and other educators interested in the medical education and teaching. 

Level of workshop intermediate workshop outcome: 

by the end of the workshop the participants will be able to: 

1) Define the virtual learning platform and the components with highlighting it is importance in the virtual teaching and education. 

2) Identify benefits and challenges to implement it in a busy clinical setting 

3) Describe different strategies and steps to build virtual platform and how to assess its effectiveness 

up to 75 participants can attend 

References (maximum three) 

1-Ken Masters, Rachel H. Ellaway, David Topps, Douglas Archibald & Rebecca J. Hogue (2016) Mobile technologies in medical education: AMEE Guide No. 105, Medical Teacher, 38:6, 537-549 

2-Guze, P.A., 2015. Using technology to meet the challenges of medical education.Trans. Am. Clin. Climatol. Assoc. 126, 260–270. 

3-Cook, D.A. and Triola, M.M. (2014). What is the role of e‐learning? Looking past the hype. Medical Education 48 (9): 930–937. 20 Huang, G, Reynolds, R., and Candler, C. (2007). Virtual Huynh, R., 2017. The role of e-learning in medical education. Acad. Med. 92 (4), 430. 

4-Andrew K et al ; Training disrupted: Practical tips for supporting competency-based medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic, Medical Teacher, 42:7, 756-76 (2020)