Thoughts on Higher Medical Education Under Major Public Health Emergencies: Thinking Ahead After COVID-19 Outbreak

Wei Lin; Yan Chen; Songchang Shi; Jixing Liang; Huibin Huang; Liantao Li; Liangchun Cai; Liyao Zong; Nengying Wang; Junping Wen; Gang Chen

Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world published in Lancet proposed an idea of the third-generation educational reform [6] . It focuses on systems based medical education to improve the performance of health systems by adapting core professional competencies to specific contexts, while drawing on global knowledge. With the rapid development of medical science, the traditional teaching methods featuring slow knowledge updating and low teaching efficiency, to some extent, are unable to fully meet the diverse learning needs of medical students. Since blended learning was proposed in 2003, it has become one of the mainstream educational approaches in the medical educational reform [7] . Blended learning is a style of education in which students learn via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching, which places an emphasis on empowering students with the skills and knowledge required to make the most of the online material and independent study time, guiding students toward the most meaningful experience possible [8] . E-learning is based on network support. 5G is the abbreviation of the fifth-generation mobile communication technology. 5G network features enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) coping with the significant increase of data volumes, overall data capacity, and user density, massive machine type communications (mMTC) requiring low power consumption for a huge number of connected devices, ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC) providing safety-critical and mission critical applications. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.