E-learning Practice at Medical Universities in Poland in the Perspective of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

• Main Authors: Leszczyński Piotr K., Roszak Magdalena, Binkowska Aneta, Świniarski Paweł, Wilk Aleksandra, Charuta Anna, Zacharuk Tamara, Kononowicz Andrzej A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2020-12-01
• Series: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2020-0039

The epidemiological situation resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic caused the Polish universities to fully switch to distance education in March 2020. Medical e-learning has not yet been broadly implemented into the education process. Therefore, examples of successful e-learning implementations or the organization of the process of medical e-learning offer a valuable source of knowledge today, which is needed immediately. The article presents e-learning practices at the Polish medical universities during the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic during the period from March to September 2020, covering seven universities in Poland that offer medical and health studies. The organization and implementation of e-learning classes is presented, including knowledge evaluation practices, providing example decisions issued by university rectors, on which the teaching process was based. A detailed presentation of the schools’ organizational units or workgroups that played an important role in the process of coordination of measures supporting e-education is also included. The article also presents a description of the software applications, utilities, and services used at the schools in the course of the process of online education. Below are some examples of specific such implementations in selected university courses.