Sustaining capacity building and practical skills training during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from India.

The combination of virtual teaching with the opportunity for real-time feedback and an integrated project to independently showcase skills learned is a way to continue procedural skills teaching in a remote environment. The aim of this innovation was to test the feasibility, acceptability, and level of engagement of conducting virtual, live supervised suturing remotely across multiple geographical locations. Our next step would be to gather pre and post data to measure the impact. Additionally, we believe this provides a proof-of-concept model to further explore sustainable, cost-effective, and scalable models for remote procedure-based teaching.