CHANGING TRENDS IN ORAL MEDICINE AND RADIOLOGY – AN IMPACT OF COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to imposement of various regulations which in turn had its impact on the normal curriculum of oral medicine and radiology. Various restrictions imposed by the government on advice of health organisations lead to abrupt cessation of offline classes and clinical rotations to reduce the exposure of students. To overcome the drawbacks various alternative learning modalities were formulated including e-learning methods. These were later improvised into flipped class room system to ease out the learning process and make it effective one. Thus the e-learning, flipped education methods helped us effectively, efficiently to continue educating students and also helped students to gain knowledge uninterruptedly even in pandemic situations by reducing their direct exposure to patients. This article mainly focussed on the hardships faced by students and various strategies formulated to tackle it.