Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID-19

By Dian Schaffhauser in Campus Technology
"While hundreds of education companies, nonprofits and other organizations made their software and services free during the immediate switch to remote learning, many have become more thoughtful about how they help educators master online and blended instruction. We've sifted through their offerings to bring you this updated set of free resources to help with online, hybrid and face-to-face learning in 2022."

Tools for medical educators to use in clinical and non-clinical teaching, including activities, webinars, clinical cases, curricula etc.

Webinars, resources, scholarship and programming for clinical and teaching/learning settings during this pandemic.

"Medicine Basecamp was created for frontline physicians. It is a week-by-week medicine refresher curriculum consisting of one podcast, practical advice in management of common medicine presentations and a visual aid. We realize that many physicians are returning to the frontlines to help with the COVID Pandemic, and for that we are especially appreciative. We hope that this curriculum helps with treatment and management of both COVID and non-COVID patients."

Online CE from AMA on equity, public health, and treating COVID-19.

This app is "designed to enable health workers to expand their life-saving skills to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. It delivers mobile access to a wealth of COVID-19 knowledge resources developed by WHO, including up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, and virtual workshops to support health workers in caring for patients infected by COVID-19 and in protecting themselves as they do their critical work."

This app is "designed to enable health workers to expand their life-saving skills to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. It delivers mobile access to a wealth of COVID-19 knowledge resources developed by WHO, including up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, and virtual workshops to support health workers in caring for patients infected by COVID-19 and in protecting themselves as they do their critical work."

Online videos, modules and other resources for teaching clinical and professional skills. Both subscription and free online resources listed, see the asterisk for access information.

Interactive practical science featuring investigations based on on-screen instruments, remote access experiments and virtual scenarios using real data. Several activities are available to all, while others are available only to registered users. Funded by The Open University and The Wolfson Foundation.

Stories from patients, healthcare professionals, and families with an emphasis on the five patient values listed in the UHN Declaration of Patient Values and their related behaviours.

Simulations, exercises, scenarios, webinars and more on COVID-19 related topics.

This activity is appropriate for health professionals who have a role in the assessment and treatment of patients with suspected COVID-19. You will perform a head-to-toe assessment of all body systems, along with ordering and interpreting labs, cultures, imaging, etc. Your goal is to successfully manage the patient’s condition.
Six 20-minute-long cases are currently available.
Free registration is required.

This 5 minute simulation is designed to practice the steps involved in proper hand hygiene utilizing soap and water. Developed by SimTutor. No registration required.

This 5 minute simulation is designed to practice the steps involved in proper hand hygiene utilizing hand sanitizer. Developed by SimTutor. No registration required.

xlung is a web-based platform that can simulate mechanical ventilation for patients with COPD, ARDS, and more, including with or without metabolic disorders. Patient parameters can also be set directly by changing demographic data, pulmonary physiology, and muscle effort, making this an ideal platform for ICU teams to prepare for complex cases. Follow the link to investigate the demo version. The team at xlung has made the platform free of charge for front-line workers during the pandemic. Email contact@xlung.net for full access to the simulator.

Among OPEN Pediatrics other simulators is a ventilator simulator:
The ventilator simulator is an immersive online mechanical ventilation training tool. This release incorporates the most recent evidence-based guidelines in pediatric and adult ventilation, as well as COVID-19 information and COVID-19 patient cases.
The virtual ventilator incorporates real-time changes in vital signs, ventilatory parameters, patient appearance, arterial blood gases, chest x-rays and more.
Cases are each 20 minutes

ECMOjo is a simulator and trainer for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMOjo has been developed by the Telehealth Research Institute (TRI), John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) of the University of Hawaii.

Full Code is a serious game that features a number of free ER medical cases to explore, including one directly related to infectious disease management (Case #83). The application can be used in browser, and also has iOS and Android versions. Every case has a unique scoring rubric and every action you perform affects your final score. The case ends with a detailed written debrief.
Cases are each 20 minutes
No registration required.

Peer-reviewed simulation cases for Emergency Medicine programs available in FOAMed spirit. Cases include respiratory failure, ambulatory care, STEMI with VF arrest, out of hospital cardiac arrest, protected intubation, with more coming.

This website offers a comprehensive set of primary clinical assessment simulation resources that would be applicable to many health professions. Modules include blood pressure measurement, ECG acquisition and analysis, auscultation of heart and lung sounds, point of care ultrasound, and more. No registration required.

VIC cases are clinical reasoning exercises with feedback. Their role is to provide a bridge between theory and seeing patients in clinic (or ER), providing students with what Ericsson has called "deliberate practice" as a way of gaining clinical expertise. A case editor is available for developing custom cases, and pre-existing cases exist for anesthesia, family medicine, preoperative, nurse practitioner, obstetric medicine, pharmacy, and rheumatology.
Cases are each 20 minutes.