TY - JOUR ID - 16033 TI - Coronavirus and medical education: Getting change and turning to new education paradigm: the need for scaffolding learning in online training JO - Future of Medical Education Journal JA - FMEJ LA - en SN - 2251-8347 AU - Mosalanejad, Leili AU - Dastpak, Mehdi AU - Ahmadi, Solyman AD - Department of Medical Education, Virtual Center, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran AD - Department of Foreign Languages, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran AD - Depertment of Medical Education, School of Medical Education, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 58 EP - 59 KW - Medical education KW - Virtual Learning KW - Scaffolding KW - Corona virus KW - Iran DO - 10.22038/fmej.2020.48671.1331 N2 - Coronavirus pandemic has caused extensive changes in various fields. Education is one challenging and necessary dimension to be paid attention by policymakers and considered as a necessity. Due to changes in the methods and styles of providing medical education from face-to-face to virtual training, and due to its novelty in our country and several challenges ahead, it is necessary to take measures an effective support for better performance of students so that they can monitor their movement to achieve excellent training goals. This will be gained by supporting students’ performances and creating appropriate scaffolds for them. This article covers the needs for scaffolding, the manner and challenges and the related reasons. Also the necessity to be involved in teacher's activities is emphasized so that the quality of education at the present time may be improved. UR - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_16033.html L1 - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_16033_0e1b8ed38c954a8d84f5d21d90499187.pdf ER -