From Trial to Implementation, Bringing Team-Based Learning Online—Duke-NUS Medical School’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract
In response to the increasing community spread of COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2020, the Singapore healthcare system moved to prioritize pandemic management over other nonessential services. The delivery of medical school curriculum and learning processes, which heavily involves clinical faculty from various healthcare institutions, had to be reconfigured and reengineered as healthcare staff reassignment and infection containment practices are escalated. A few years earlier, in 2015, Duke-NUS had implemented an eLearning week, where face-to-face activities were conducted online in order to prepare for unforeseen disruptions to the curriculum. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we first put these practices to use when enhanced social distancing restrictions were mandated across the country in February 2020, and university guidelines required that all classes with 50 or more students be moved online [1]. As the pandemic escalated, Singapore imposed increased movement restrictions in April 2020 and all educational institutions were instructed to move to full home-based learning [2]. The transition to online learning may be smoother for a traditional lecture-based course, as educators can share prerecorded lectures, or even deliver live lectures through videoconferencing platforms. Learning resources can be posted on their institution’s learning management system for their students to access remotely. However, a growing trend in higher education is towards the use of “flipped…
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