Hybrid education is way forward for medical education: AIIMS Delhi's study

A study by All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi found that hybrid education is the way forward for medical education. Hybrid education is expected to play a key role in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. Students perceived structured virtual group discussion (sVGD) as a more effective format compared to the ground discussion in a virtual format.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi conducted a study and found that going forward hybrid education will play a key role in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. 

During the Covid pandemic period, one of the biggest challenges for medical education was maintaining interactivity among the students. To overcome this problem, an innovative approach of structured virtual group discussion (sVGD) was adopted in physiology postgraduate education for effective academic learning that comprised supervised and unsupervised interactions in a structured way leading to the active engagement of medical students.

A statement by AIIMS Delhi said, "The results of our study were published in a reputed international journal of medical education and was awarded the best research paper for the development of newer techniques (Dev Raj Bajaj Award) by the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists in 2021. The innovation was a consequence of our published research on the perception of students regarding the effectiveness of virtual versus face-to-face teaching amidst COVID-19 conducted by Dr Simran Kaur, Dr Dinu S Chandran, Dr Megha Bir and Prof. KK Deepak at the Department of Physiology, AIIMS, New Delhi," as reported Economic Times.

The principal investigator, Dr Simran Kaur, said, "Our novel approach in medical education may act as a torchbearer to implement small-group teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students across speciality, especially during a pandemic or similar circumstances, where a transition to virtual format is inevitable."

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