Gianni Rossi, Jessica Cesca, Charmie Fong, Andrew Wallace, Peter Simmons DComm, Uchechukwu Levi Osuagwu, Jannine Bailey, Tegan Dutton, Adambarage Chandima De Alwis
Rural parents' adherence to infant feeding guidelines to prevent allergy: a cross sectional study in New South Wales
BMC public health
forced adaptation brought covid19 inform future clinical education study brings low middleincome country perspective question studies impact covid19 medical students training conducted highincome countries infrastructure convert alternative virtual covid19friendly training platforms online teaching case discussions skill development centres established low middleincome countries south africa stellenbosch university instead chose move substantial components clinical training away traditional city tertiary campus smaller district hospitals main objective study ascertain perspectives student interns regarding quality restructured training distributed health facilities covid19 pandemic compare perspectives ruralsite students metropolitan metrosite students crosssectional study conducted redcap survey quantitative data analysed spss statistics descriptive inferential statistics statistical significance associations determined pvalue 005 likertscale questions analysed ordinal variables determine distribution responses nonparametric mannwhitney tests used compare distributions rural metro groups qualitative questions analysed thematically identifying common themes ethical approval obtained study 155 respondents 62 response rate although 746 participants indicated developed approaches undifferentiated problems illnesses ruralsite students likely perceive learnt new procedures p0006 improved ability perform procedures previously learnt p0002 compared metrosite students ruralsite students reported saw patients independently previous training p0001 felt took responsibility patient management p0001 metrosite students students rural sites likely agree training pandemic provided good learning opportunities p0001 medical students form necessary part pandemic response overall students distributed sites felt training gave confidence future internship previous training central teaching hospitals median2 agree covid19 pandemic provided challenges continuation quality medical training also provided opportunity innovative changes study demonstrates successful outcomes even pandemic distributedsite training students immersed healthcare team take responsibility patient management report improve skills students rural sites tended report positive perspective clinical training rather seeing end pandemic time revert previous status quo students study suggest us lessons learnt forced innovation distributed learning inform better approach clinical education future