ERIC Number: EJ1356506
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1935-9772
EISSN: EISSN-1935-9780
Promoting More Future-Ready Anatomy Education after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review
Gasmalla, Hosam Eldeen Elsadig; Mossa, Abubakr H.; Taha, Mohamed H.; Wadi, Majed M.; Shehzad, Khalid; Abdalla, Mohamed Elhassan; Hadie, Siti Nurma Hanim
Anatomical Sciences Education, v15 n6 p1120-1137 Nov-Dec 2022
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused an abrupt transition from face-to-face to online anatomy teaching, learning, and assessment. Although online education has ensured the continuity of anatomy education during the pandemic, its implementation has been challenging, and its effectiveness has been questioned. Therefore, literature pertinent to online anatomy education during the pandemic is crucial to explain COVID-19's disruptions to this field. Accordingly, this scoping review explored changes, disruptions, and gaps in anatomy teaching and assessment during COVID-19 using an enhanced version of Arksey and O'Malley's six-stage protocol. Five online databases were searched for articles that described changes and disruptions in anatomy education. Three independent researchers were involved in titles, abstracts, and full texts screening, while another four researchers were independently involved in data extraction, charting, and synthesis. This review revealed six themes: immediate strategic plans and actions, teaching and learning changes, online assessment practice, students' and educators' receptivity and adaptability, online learning and assessment effects, and future directions. It also revealed four gaps: non-future-ready curricula, learning obstacles, administrative and teaching challenges, and online education ethical issues. The results were reported in tabular and narrative forms, following the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR guidelines). Understanding the evolution and gaps in anatomy education during the COVID-19 pandemic will help anatomists design future-ready, adaptable curricula.
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Anatomy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Literature Reviews, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Educational Change
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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