Imperial College London
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ProfessorFernandoBello

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer

Professor of Surgical Computing and Simulation Science
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 3315 8231f.bello Website

 
 
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Location

 

G3.50Chelsea and Westminster HospitalChelsea and Westminster Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Lee:2023:10.2196/42281,
author = {Lee, JWY and Bello, F},
doi = {10.2196/42281},
journal = {JMIR Med Educ},
title = {Readiness of Health Care Professionals in Singapore to Teach Online and Their Technology-Related Teaching Needs: Quantitative Cross-sectional Pilot Study.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/42281},
volume = {9},
year = {2023}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - BACKGROUND: With the increasing acceptance of face-to-face classes transitioning to web-based learning due to COVID-19, there is an increasing need to have educators trained and equipped to teach online. The ability to teach in-person may not necessarily mean that one is ready teach in a web-based environment. OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to investigate the readiness of health care professionals in Singapore to teach online and their technology-related teaching needs. METHODS: This was a quantitative cross-sectional pilot study conducted among health care administrative staff and professionals in medicine, nursing, allied health, and dentistry. Participants were recruited via an open invitation email to all staff members of Singapore's largest group of health care institutions. Data were collected using a web-based questionnaire. Differences in the readiness of the professionals to teach online were analyzed using analysis of variance, and a 1-sided independent sample t test was performed to analyze the differences between respondents younger than 40 years and those older than 41 years. RESULTS: A total of 169 responses was analyzed. Full-time academic faculty members scored the highest for readiness to teach online (2.97), followed by nursing professionals (2.91), medicine professionals (2.88), administrative staff members (2.83), and allied health professionals (2.76). However, there was no statistically significant difference (P=.77) among all the respondents in their readiness to teach online. There was an agreement among all professionals in their need for software tools to teach; in particular, there was a significant difference in the software needs among the professionals for streaming videos (P=.01). There was no statistically significant difference in the readiness to teach online between those younger than 40 years and those older than 41 years (P=.48). CONCLUSIONS: Our study shows that there are still some gaps in terms of readiness to teach
AU  - Lee,JWY
AU  - Bello,F
DO  - 10.2196/42281
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 2369-3762
TI  - Readiness of Health Care Professionals in Singapore to Teach Online and Their Technology-Related Teaching Needs: Quantitative Cross-sectional Pilot Study.
T2  - JMIR Med Educ
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/42281
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36877546
VL  - 9
ER  -
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