key: cord-0710769-odu6bebs
authors: Addis, Bridget; Dean, Kimberley; Setterfield, Madeline; Nott, Shannon; Hunter, Amanda; Webster, Emma
title: Virtual elective placements for medical students during COVID‐19
date: 2022-03-08
journal: Med Educ
DOI: 10.1111/medu.14772
sha: 600224333760351d6f719310017e98484e4102af
doc_id: 710769
cord_uid: odu6bebs

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We designed and integrated an instant feedback tool into our institution's online learning management system. The tool appears on all students' user interfaces as a non-intrusive icon. Students can initiate a response at any time during the discussion, clicking on the icon and selecting from a pull-down list of feedback options developed in collaboration with students (e.g., "already understand" or "clarify in simple terms"). Student selections are immediately consolidated in a real-time pie chart, the purpose of which is to give instructors real-time feedback to help them with lesson delivery.

We tested this feedback tool in a pilot TBL session with 34 students and 3 instructors. The feedback tool was used 20 times.

About 86.7% of students initiated a response, with 76.7% of them activating it multiple times. A post-session survey (n = 30) revealed that the majority of students agreed that the tool was useful in

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