Commentary

VOLUME: 36 | ISSUE: 2S | Jun 24, 2020 | PAGE: (78 - 80) | DOI: 10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-377

Online Training Course on COVID-19


Authors: Nasir Shah


Authors

Nasir Shah

Professor and Head, Department of Family Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Lahore-Pakistan.

Publication History

Received: May 13, 2020

Revised: May 19, 2020

Accepted: June 19, 2020

Published: June 24, 2020


Abstract


In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, global trend for launching online courses and trainings regarding risk factors, acquisition, diagnosis, clinical presentation, management and prevention of COVID-19 is cresting. Department of Family Medicine at University of Health Sciences Lahore introduced a 2-hours online course where a total of 39993 health professionals from all over the world were enrolled and 32000 participants completed the course with encouraging feedback.


Keywords: COVID-19, Family medicine, Online course.