Excited to be developing a new fully online special topic paper for the UoA #clined programme on advanced elearning in clinical education. This paper intends to amalgamate the lessons learnt from remote teaching/learning during #covid19pandemic, with more established and tested means of technology integration in clinical teaching. There are so many reasons why the timing is opportune. A curriculum framework transformation is underway at the university, #pivotonline has surfaced promising options to interact and engage with students flexibly and the best way to appreciate learning online is to step into an online learner’s shoe. Not all changes implemented during #pivotonline may be suitable in perpetuity but there are aspects of online learning that might enable useful pedagogical shift in medical education.

What remains to be seen is whether COVID-19 provided the experience, vision and courage for medical education to change, or whether the old barriers will rise again when the pandemic is over.

Binks et al., 2021