Abstract
AbstractCurrently, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) severely influences physiotherapy education which is based mostly on face-to-face teaching. Thus, educators have been compelled to adapt their pedagogical approaches moving to digital education. In this commentary, we debate on digital education highlighting its effectiveness, the users’ perspectives, and its weakness in the context of physiotherapy teaching aimed at informing post-COVID-19 future directions in this educational field. Existing evidence on digital education produced before COVID-19 supports its implementation into entry-level physiotherapy education. However, some challenges (e.g. social inequality and evaluation of students) threaten its applicability in post-COVID-19 era, calling educators to take appropriate actions.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Education,Medicine (miscellaneous)
Reference59 articles.
1. World Physiotherapy. World physiotherapy response to COVID-19—briefing paper 1. Immediate impact on the higher education sector and response to delivering physiotherapist entry level education. 2020. https://world.physio/covid-19-information-hub/covid-19-briefing-papers. Accessed 2 Sept 2021.
2. World Physiotherapy. World physiotherapy response to COVID-19—briefing paper 3. Immediate impact on students and the response to delivering physiotherapist entry level education. 2020. https://world.physio/covid-19-information-hub/covid-19-briefing-papers. Accessed 2 Sept 2021.
3. Car J, Carlstedt-Duke J, Car TL, Posadzki P, Whiting P, Zary N, Atun R, Majeed A, Campbell J. Digital health education collaboration. Digital education in health professions: the need for overarching evidence synthesis. J Med Internet Res. 2019;21:e12913. https://doi.org/10.2196/12913.
4. Bajpai S, Semwal M, Bajpai R, Car J, Ho AHY. Health professions’ digital education: review of learning theories in randomized controlled trials by the digital health education collaboration. J Med Internet Res. 2019;21:e12912. https://doi.org/10.2196/12912.
5. Brusamento S, Kyaw BM, Whiting P, Li L, Tudor CL. Digital health professions education in the field of pediatrics: systematic review and meta-analysis by the digital health education collaboration. J Med Internet Res. 2019;21:e14231. https://doi.org/10.2196/14231.
Cited by
20 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献