scholarly journals Views of medical students about online classes started during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online exploratory survey from India

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Sandeep Grover ◽  
SandeepKumar Goyal ◽  
Swapnajeet Sahoo ◽  
Samta Goyal ◽  
Aseem Mehra
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Exploratory Survey

Medical Students’ Search Behaviour: An Exploratory Survey

2012 ◽  
pp. 337-351
Author(s):  
Anushia Inthiran ◽  
Saadat M. Alhashmi ◽  
Pervaiz K. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Exploratory Survey

scholarly journals Consequences and Adaptations in Medical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Medical Students’ Perspective in a Malaysian Public Institution

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Ahmad Anwaar Muhammad Saifullah ◽  
Nour Hanan Daniah Mohd Bakhit ◽  
Suhaila Sanip ◽  
Mohd Rahman Omar ◽  
Maimunah Abdul Muna'aim
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Higher Institution ◽  
Physical Examinations ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Case Presentations ◽  
Real Patients

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become one of the most disastrous health crises of the present world. The COVID-19 pandemic imposes unprecedented challenges for medical education globally. We describe how the pandemic has disrupted the medical education landscape from the students' perspectives and how medical students from a public higher institution adapted to the changes made to comply with the various government agencies' guidelines to contain the spread of COVID-19 while fulfilling the course requirements. The utilisation of numerous innovative online applications enabled the students to participate in numerous teaching and learning activities (TLA) with more flexible scheduling of the classes, participated in a series of online case-based discussions, clinical practice guideline (CPG) discussions, case presentations and objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) simulations. Students also joined TLAs conducted by other institutions both locally and abroad. In addition, students had collaborated among themselves and students from other institutions to conduct online peer-teaching activities. Perhaps, the main challenges for online classes were being unable to perform medical procedures and technical issues, commonly the poor internet connectivity. In regard to physical examinations, students performed it on members of their household instead of real patients. Learning medicine from a distance also gave us an opportunity to taste telemedicine which may be the future of medical practice. Students and academics should be adaptive, resourceful and resilient in facing these changes together. The institution needs to look at all stakeholders' perspectives to respond to the changes in the medical education landscape.

scholarly journals CLASSROOM TEACHING IS BETTER THAN ONLINE TEACHING - A SURVEY REPORT IN MEDICAL COLLEGE MANDI H.P

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1165-1170
Author(s):  
Soni Pankaj ◽  
◽  
Kapoor Kanchan ◽  
Rana Susheela ◽  
Bandana a ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Survey Report ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Impact

Around the world even the developed countries are stunned by this pandemic causing extensive pain. India is no exception and the Government has imposed a nation – wide lockdown to help restrain the virus. At the onset of the pandemic, medical students in the midst of the session were suddenly pulled out of their studies and same for 3rd and 4th years medical students clerkships were abruptly pulled out of clinical care. Faculty scrambled to adjust learning experiences by switching to online cases and remote activities to prepare students for required exams and to build clinical reasoning skills without the face to face patient encounter. In such a situation, where educational institutions across the country have been closed, both teaching and learning have affected millions of students. As per the orders from the.Government, Universities the colleges have started offering online classes to students. The objective of these online classes is to make sure that students do not lose out on any teaching and learning activities during the lockdown. This paper examines the impact of lockdown on students of medical institutions, the challenges they are facing due to lockdown.

scholarly journals Comparative evaluation of COVID-19 pandemic enforced online teaching versus traditional teaching from point of view of medical students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Radhika Vijay
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Traditional Mode ◽  
Teaching Learning

Background: The current ongoing coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought a sea change in education teaching learning system, ways and methodologies. Online teaching has been enforced suddenly for students worldwide. It has become a substitute to traditional teaching. Aware of the fact that the Corona pandemic has changed the way of learning teaching, we want to find out what students think about their real predispositions. This study is to compare and evaluate the opinions, preferences, experiences of undergraduate medical students during continuous online classes since the onset of Pandemic times.Methods: A sample size of 115 undergraduate medical students of batch 2019 was taken for the study done in Sardar Patel Medical College of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India in October 2020.A questionnaire was prepared using Google forms application and was filled by students online.Results: Majority of students had a preference and interest for traditional mode of teaching, they agreed on better understanding of concepts and details of topic and grasping more of knowledge through it. But majority of students also agreed that they are getting more time to study now with online teaching.Conclusions: This study gives an in depth insight into the current ongoing online teaching methodologies and throws light on changing acceptance of students to the current COVID-19 pandemic ways of teaching and on welcoming a better “blended learning” pattern in the upcoming Post COVID-19 new normal times.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON EDUCATION OF UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS OF PAKISTAN.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Nauman Aziz ◽  
Muhammad Waseem ◽  
Anmol Fatima ◽  
Aqsa Anwar ◽  
Fahad Khalid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Classroom Environments ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: COVID-19 has caused unrest among medical students all over the world including Pakistan. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 on education of undergraduate medical students of Pakistan by assessing their responses to a survey. METHODOLOGY: A validated questionnaire of this cross-sectional analytical study was distributed among 900 undergraduate MBBS students of different medical colleges and universities across Pakistan. Results were assessed by using SPSS version-24. RESULTS: The response rate of our study was 85%. Majority of the participants were females (64.4%) while the fourth year MBBS students took part in the survey with the highest number of students, 434 (56.7%). Major part of the participants (90.8%) agreed to the fact that COVID-19 has affected their study duration. Ninety six percent of the students had online classes during this COVID-19 but more than half of the students (52.8%) were of the view that it’s hardly effective. Interestingly 91.5% of the students participating in the survey showed that they have lost interest in studies. A great difficulty was faced by the students in establishing boundaries between work and home (84.0%). Almost eighty five percent of the students missed their classroom environments. CONCLUSION: There is a huge impact of COVID-19 on medical education of the students in Pakistan. It affected them both physically and mentally and created great phobia in them related to future of their education.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of interactive dual-mode online platform for teaching and assessment of students during COVID 19 pandemic: Narrative experience and reflections of undergraduate medical students

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Rajiv Mahajan ◽  
Kapil Gupta ◽  
Sandeep Kaur ◽  
Tanvir Kaur Sidhu ◽  
Upinder Kaur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Dual Mode ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Medical Undergraduate

Objectives: The objective of the study was to evaluate the perception of the undergraduate students about the online platform developed, through a long-term, qualitative study. COVID-19 enforced initial lockdown and later closing of educational institutes, including medical colleges in India. The circumstances lead to adoption of online means of teaching for teaching the medical undergraduate students. An interactive dual-mode online platform was introduced for teaching and assessment of undergraduate students in our institute also. Materials and Methods: Narrative experiences and reflections of students while attending online classes through the designed and delivered “interactive dual-mode online platform” were collected through open ended, anonymous Google forms. Results: Students were satisfied with the online learning as a stop-gap arrangement. Although they were facing technical snags and internet issues, they were happy that their syllabus was being covered and they were receiving formative assessment, in whatever quantity and mode possible. However, they were concerned about the lack of clinical training. Conclusion: To tide over crisis period, online teaching can be used, but one should shift to onsite teaching as soon as possible, particularly for medical students.

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Coping Styles in the Relationship between Resilience and Depression among Medical Students in the Context of Online Classes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Smartphone-Based Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Zhao ◽  
Kristin Sznajder ◽  
Dan Cheng ◽  
Shimeng Wang ◽  
Can Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Prevalence Of Depression

BACKGROUND Due to the strict nationwide COVID-19 comprehensive protective measures, which included home quarantine, all Chinese medical students began taking online classes beginning in the spring semester of 2020. Home quarantine, online classes, and the stress surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic may have triggered increased mental health problems of medical students. Although there has been an increasing literature on depression among medical students, studies focusing on positive psychological resources such as resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic still need to be expanded. OBJECTIVE The present study aims at assessing depression of medical students taking online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic and investigating the role of coping styles as a mediator between resilience and depression. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 666 medical students with stratified sampling in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in China was completed between March 20th, 2020 and April 10th, 2020. The participants responded to a self-administered smartphone-based questionnaire which included Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ), and Ego-Resilience scale (ER-89). Hierarchical linear regression and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used in this study. RESULTS The prevalence of depression in the participants was 9.6% in this study. Regression analysis revealed that grade (the year in which the medical student was in their training), how well they adapted to online classes, their levels of resilience, and their coping styles were independent predictors for depression. Resilience and positive coping style were negatively related to depression and negative coping style was positively related to depression. SEM showed that the effect of resilience on depression was partially mediated by coping styles. CONCLUSIONS It was found in the present study the prevalence of depression was slightly low and coping styles mediated the association between resilience and depression among medical students during COVID-19, which was of significant implications for further study. Future studies and interventions are supposed to be aimed at improving resilience and promoting positive coping style.

scholarly journals E-Learning amid COVID-19 Pandemic: An Experience by medical students of Rawalpindi Medical University Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-367
Author(s):  
Rizwana Shahid ◽  
Shazia Zeb ◽  
Sumaira Yasmeen ◽  
Muhammad Umar ◽  
Rai Muhammad Asghar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of e-learning and hurdles confronted to the undergraduate medical students of Rawalpindi Medical University in continuation of academics during COVID-19 pandemic. Subjects & Methods: A survey was carried out during July 2020 to scrutinize the experience of 1041 medical students enrolled at Rawalpindi Medical University regarding their academic experience through Microsoft Teams. A self- structured questionnaire was digitally administered for this purpose to gather their responses about academic coverage, prior intimation about the lecture topic, opportunities for interaction with teachers, internet connectivity and various teaching methods employed by the teachers and recommendations for improvement. The data was analyzed by means of SPSS version 25.0. Percentages were computed for responses on all the variables. Results: Total 1041 medical students gave feedback regarding their e-learning through Microsoft Teams. Theoretical aspect coverage, prior intimation of topic to be covered and student-teacher interaction during online classes were satisfactory according to 68%, 85% and 61% of students respectively. About 70% respondents claimed frequent internet connectivity issues during e-learning while 63% found Microsoft Teams interface incompatible. Broad band internet connection at home was available to only 60.10% students. Most (25%) students wanted improvement in software for smooth execution of their e-learning. Conclusion: Although online learning proved as blessing in disguise amid COVID-19 pandemic but being new experience for both students and teachers some problems were faced that can easily be rectified.

scholarly journals Survey Among Medical Students During COVID-19 Lockdown: The Online Class Dilemma

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Thomas ◽  
Mohan T. Shenoy ◽  
Shenoy K. T. ◽  
Sruthi Suresh Kumar ◽  
Aboobakker Sidheeque ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Online Class ◽  
Network Problems ◽  
Medical Undergraduate

Background: In view of COVID-19 lockdown in India, many colleges started online classes. This study aimed to evaluate the attitude of and the factors affecting medical students attending online classes during lockdown. Methods: We designed an online questionnaire with open-ended, close-ended, and Linkert scale questions. Links to the questionnaires were shared with the medical undergraduate students who have attended at least one online class during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Respondents were 1061 participants from 30 medical colleges from the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in India. Results: The majority of students – 94 % (955/1016) – used smartphones to attend online classes. ZOOM/ Skype – by 57.1 % (580/1016) – and Google platforms – by 54.4 % (553/1016) – were commonly used. Learning at leisure – 44.5 % (452/1016) – was the top reason why students liked online classes, whereas network problems – 85.8 % (872/1016) – was the top reason why students disliked them. Lack of sufficient interaction – 61.1% (621/1016) and more than half the participants – 51.7% (526/1016) – did not want to continue online classes after COVID-19 lockdown. More students – 55% (558/1016) – favored regular classes than online classes. Conclusion: Students in our survey did not seem favorably disposed to online classes. Network problems experienced by students should be addressed. Furthermore, teachers should try to make the classes more interactive and educational institutions should address the problem pointed out by the students in order to make online classes more effective in the future.

scholarly journals The IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON LEARNING OF UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY FROM KARACHI

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 1902-07
Author(s):  
Adina Anwar ◽  
Erum Khan ◽  
Munizha Nisar ◽  
Rameesha Qutub ud Din ◽  
Syed Rubaba Azim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Impact

Objective: To assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on learning of undergraduate medical students ofKarachi. Study Design: A cross-sectional, observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Study was conducted at conducted at the different public and private medicalcolleges, Karachi, from Mar to Apr 2020. Methodology: Google survey form based cross-sectional study conducted at the different public and privatemedical colleges, Karachi from March till April 2020. Non-probability consecutive sampling technique was used.This questionnaire consisted of 13 items which focused on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the learning ofundergraduate medical students from Karachi. Results: The study was conducted on 110 undergraduate students. Out of which, majority of the participantswere from third year 45 (41%) and second year of MBBS 25 (23%). It was found that almost 71% of the undergraduate students had less likely to remember and understand material taught in online class and 60% had less likely to get answers to their queries as compared to regular classes. The results also showed that 49% of the undergraduate students were disturbed by technical issues during online classes. Furthermore, it was also found that learning of 54 out of 110 undergraduate students was always affected due to loss of clinical rotations. Strong association were also found in between online satisfaction and stressful condition due to online classes. Conclusion: It was concluded that COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected the learning of the undergraduatemedical students and have negatively impacted their satisfaction level towards their studies.

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