Postgraduate neurosurgical education in the current COVID-19 climate: An auspicious time for a paradigm shift in Africa
Neurosurgical education is undergoing serious challenges in the present climate of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Africa and other developing countries where the Halstedian style of medical education and training remains persistent due to a lack of infrastructural innovations and resources. Th...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Nigerian journal of medicine 2021-03, Vol.30 (2), p.222-224 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Neurosurgical education is undergoing serious challenges in the present climate of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Africa and other developing countries where the Halstedian style of medical education and training remains persistent due to a lack of infrastructural innovations and resources. Therefore, to ensure the continuity of training and services with guaranteed safety of the neurosurgical staff and patients, there is a need for a pedagogical change of the training and educational model with the incorporation of neurosurgical simulation laboratory training and online/virtual neurosurgical education. |
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ISSN: | 1115-2613 |
DOI: | 10.4103/NJM.NJM_176_20 |