Table 10.

Key dimensions of online education.

Technical support	Institutional support
•Improve internet connection (on and off site) •Ensure free subscription to or offers for internet applications•Provide most suitable platforms •Improve technical setup of e-learning •Provide modern tablets	•Ensure free access to medical online facilities for all academic members •Ensure meeting the time schedule •Provide more e-learning tutorials and applications •Store all educational material provided in suitable platforms, for national used (e.g., RCOG) •Provide study rooms (e.g., library) that enable e-learning while at the campus or hospital
Pedagogy	Educational enhancement
•Strictly comply with academic curriculum and adjust lecture topics •Define clear objectives •Increase motivation •More lectures and activities •More practical sessions •Smart technology enhancement to improve punctuality, interaction with students during lectures and online exams platforms •Divide the sessions into 2 groups: junior and senior	•Build skills and competencies for using e-learning platform •Special workshops, webinars, and training courses for digital literacy •Carefully select/plan mentorships •Promote interaction via technological upgrades •Do feedback survey •Pursue Innovation •Encourage international communication
E-learning platform	E-learning strategy
•Provide daily/weekly sessions •Aim at standardizing online education, even after COVID-19, considering the platforms' complementary impact on medical training •Facilitate registration •Arrange timely subscription to e-learning platforms and offer free use to trainees •Encourage SCFHS interventions for provision of online exams and surgical simulation tools	•Rearrange time schedule: establish minimum break times between lectures and training hours •Do not violate personal (off work) time with post-poned lessons •Encourage e-learning practice if needed for the academic activity •Do not underestimate and underachieve in person teaching approach (Integrate with e-learning) •Promote active engagement in educational process •Accredit e-learning courses or degrees
Human factors	Soft issues
Ensure residents' effective clinical training in relevance to selected subspecialty •Do not overload trainees with unreasonable medical duties •Ensure that training practice does not intervene with medical education and skill building •Respect trainees' employment rights •Increase social interaction between colleagues •Address work pressure issues •In any case, provide free courses •Additionally, complement in person training with e-learning methods if preferred by trainees	•Instructors: focus on training students with emphasis on motivation, mentorship, acknowledgment, and experiential education •Exhibit professional conduct •Radically address soft issues and adjust academic behavior •Eradicate pathological phenomena in the workplace: discrimination, psychological pressure, abuse, harassment, and any type of misconduct
Content enhancement
•Keep the lectures to-the-point •Focus on group discussion, and interactive learning •Provide medical tutorials •Pose practical questions •Prioritize lecture topics, according to selected specialties •Improve the materials and the applications used for comfortable, efficient and flexible e-learning •Point out more case studies •Purchase more question banks •Seek feedback from trainees •Exploit SCFHS learning material •Hold more webinars •Experiment with new applications •Invest in making the content interesting and archived into free access library