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

The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.06.20053918 doi: medRxiv preprint During the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of online teaching programs aimed at higher medical education has been formulated and implemented, but in this particular period the effectiveness and results of online teaching need joint efforts by subjects of practice involved in actual work such as higher medical education managers, teachers and students. Amid current pandemic, the administrative department of higher medical education and school administrators should take actions based on a long-term perspective, systematic thinking and top-level design. Teachers are the main body of the action of "keep medical schools running without suspending classes". On the one hand,teachers have to change their ideas to form a "student-centered" teaching concept. On the other hand, teachers ought to improve their information literacy, familiarize themselves with online education, and master the method of online teaching. In addition to teaching basic professional knowledge, ideological and political concept, benevolence to patients, contribution to society, as well as the preventive medicine should be integrated into online courses. Moreover, it is necessary to raise medical students awareness of PHEIC during the pandemic, especially teach them about precautionary and preventive measures such as clinical diagnosis and treatment, isolation of patients and self-protection so that they can be competent in the future to handle public health emergencies and give medical guidance to the masses.