id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-011620-f3uw74w7 Tokuç, Burcu Medical Education in Turkey in Time of COVID-19 2020-06-01 .txt text/plain 1221 70 48 As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic interrupted many things in the world, it also disrupted medical education. In Turkey, in recent years, medical faculties have been trying to transform medical education into individualized, virtual education by reducing classic lectures, using more technology for laboratory lessons, promoting active, self-learning, and integrating education. In most medical schools in Turkey, during the first three years of education, students were in physical environments only for laboratory practices or small group lessons, like problem-based learning (PBL) discussions, and they did not attend traditional lectures. The measures taken by China and Canada in the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s are known, but medical schools all around the world were unprepared for the pandemic. Although some aspects of education in many faculties have been individualized for "anytime/anywhere"-asynchronous learning in recent years, students must gather for lessons such as laboratory sessions, bedside practices, and case/patient presentations and discussions. Medical Student Education in the time of COVID-19 ./cache/cord-011620-f3uw74w7.txt ./txt/cord-011620-f3uw74w7.txt