Enforced format change to medical education webinar during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

摘要

To enhance the teacher’s educational competency and promote a positive educational culture, Korea University College of Medicine (KUCM) established Faculty Academy of Medical Education (FAME) in 2012. KUMC has conducted regular seminars 6 times per semester, and it reached to 100 sessions by 2019. It is comprised of 1-hour lectures held at the medical campus with live links to the two other teaching hospitals located 1–2-hour driving distance. However, since mid-February 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak led to the suspension of all face-to-face gatherings in South Korea, including in house conferences and meetings. Despite the suspension of physical gatherings, KUCM made the decision to persevere with FAME and move the seminars wholly online into webinars. The authors of this paper would like to share what we learned from the medical education webinar, which has been forced to go online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.