Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan: Implications for Occupational Therapy Education

Yu-Chan Lin ； Chung-Pei Fu ； Han-Kuei Fu ； Keh-Chung Lin

《Journal of Medical Education》 26卷3期 (2022/09) Pp. 131-140

https://doi.org/10.6145/jme.202209_26(3).0001

摘要

There is a desperate need for the transition of health care professional education from face-to-face education to e-learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Post pandemic changes in the behavior of patients seeking occupational therapy services mark the need for the ongoing transformation of occupational therapy education for strategic plans to meet the need for occupational therapy services inside and outside the hospital setting. To achieve the goal, occupational therapy educators need to study the processes of teaching and learning to make effective use of modern technology to provide online courses and instruction. To investigate the experiences of tutors and learners of clinical training courses given online, an evaluation protocol for the study of the elements of effective e-learning needs to be formulated.

關鍵字

COVID-19 ； occupational therapy education ； clinical practice education ； e-learning

參考文獻

Lin YC, Lin KC: Embedding medical ethics into occupational therapy clinical practice education. J Med Educ 2022; 26(1): 34-40. DOI:10.6145/jme.202203_26(1).0003

Ellis PM: How might the pandemic change medical education? J Med Educ 2021; 25(4): 155-64. DOI:10.6145/jme.202112_25(4).0001

Lai CC, Yen MY, Lee PI, Hsueh PR: How to keep COVID-19 at bay: a Taiwanese perspective. J Epidemiol Glob Health 2020; 11(1): 1–5. DOI:10.2991/jegh.k.201028.001

Majumder J, Minko T: Recent developments on therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for COVID-19. AAPS J 2021; 23(1): 14. DOI:10.1208/s12248-020-00532-2

Dost S, Hossain A, Shehab M, et al.: Perceptions of medical students towards online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey of 2721 UK medical students. BMJ Open 2020; 10(11): e042378. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042378