Teaching Veterinary Anatomy During Covid-19 Pan- demic Time, Challenges and Solutions

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Department of Anatomy & Embryology. Fac. Vet. Med., University of Sadat City, EGYPT

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How we managed the official suspension of the study in the Universities in Egypt since 14 March 2020 during the first attack of Covid-19 and also during the second Attack, is the point onto which lights will be focused in this essay. Challenges facing the anatomy/histology education were: How to manage the lectures, how to prepare the practical lessons, and how to make the exams specially the practical ones.
Two ways were adopted: presenting the power point program with audio comments to the groups of 1st and 2nd year students launched using WhatsApp. Some faculties managed a platform and the lecturers uploaded their power points on it, then the students download it. Instead of the written exams, an essay or small research article for each topic in anatomy/histology the students had studied was decided. The students have given 1.5 month as dead line to send their essays. The practical exams indissecting rooms/ histology labs were replaced by MCQ, True and false, diagrams and short answers questions sheets. The evaluation is either pass or failed. The first end semester exams of this year were postponed to the beginning of the second semester i.e. 20 February 2021. The beginning of teaching the second semester is not yet decided. The general education policy now after this pandemic is a transfer to the electronic exams and corrections and in turn encouraging the universities to establish question banks for each syllabus and to adopt the Blended learning (50% online & 50% face to face).

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