CHALLENGES IN EFFECTIVE CURRICULAR DELIVERY, WHILE NAVIGATING THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE PANDEMIC YEAR 2020-'21 – AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC REPORT

Abstract

The pandemic of 2020 disrupted the traditional medical education, which was based predominantly on face-to-face teaching. The deanery of medical schools had to quickly adapt to the disruption and plan innovative online solutions to continue the instructional processes. This article summarises these experiences as an autoethnographic record of a deanery of a medical school in Malaysia, highlighting fusion teaching, hybrid simulation, simulated clinical clerkship and the move from linear model to jig-saw puzzle model of curricular delivery