Set-up and Facilitation of Online Small-Group Clinical Discussions

Set-up and Facilitation of Online Small-Group Clinical Discussions

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Abstract Educational technology-based learning, or e-learning, is expected to play a significant role in medical education due to such advantages as the convenience of a classroom without walls and the flexibility for both learners and teachers to work independently.Small-group teaching is an established educational methodology that is amenable to conversion into an e-learning format.However, no guidelines exist for best practices for both medical students and facilitators in the virtual, small-group setting.With this resource, we offer details on how to set up an online e-small group asynchronous clinical discussion and how Bag Charm to facilitate and conduct such a session with best practice guidelines for the e-facilitator and etiquette guidelines for medical students.The sample infectious disease e-small group, used in this resource to describe the set-up, is appropriate for a late first- or second-year medical student level, as it fits an integrated unit that discusses HIV and targets pathophysiology and pharmacology Galaxy S20+ content.

This module was codesigned and facilitated by near peers and, as such, it addresses the competency of life-long learning while building skills of medical students as teachers.To our knowledge this is the first attempt to outline the implementation of an asynchronous e-small group clinical discussion.The best practice facilitator guidelines were codeveloped with medical student input and are based on a review of literature.