Medical Education during COVID-19 Pandemic and Experience of Atılım Medical School

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has not been only a health problem, it has had a worldwide noticeable impact on the societies, countries, global economy, and caused major disruption of systems as well as education including medical education. The closure of medical schools has led to universities to deliver medical education through distance learning methods all around the World. Soon after the suspension of face-to-face education at universities in our country, our university was organized rapidly and we started to distance-based learning in the school of medicine after two weeks. All the theoretical courses were given according to the schedule in time and the exams had to be made online but laboratory applications had to be postponed. In this review, we tried to summarize our experience and our efforts to sustain the education during to the COVID-19 pandemic.