The impact of COVID-19 on medical education: our students perception on the practice of long distance learning

Abstract

Background: Medical faculties in Indonesia also affected by COVID-19 pandemic, including the faculty of medicine, Universitas Kristen Indonesia. To some extent, faculty administrator had to improvisize in order to make adjustment, from the formerly class based lecture in to modified long distance/online lecture. This study aimed to measure the impact of COVID-19 on the medical education by asking the student’s perception on the practice of long distance learning delivered during this pandemi.Methods: The study held in Jakarta, Indonesia from the 1st until 3rd week of May 2020, after previously being approved by the faculty ethical committe. This is a simple survey based cross sectional study design using electronic questionairre which was arranged based on the result of previously conducted small focus group discussion and in-depth interview carried out on a number of selected students and lecturers. Questionairre made on Google Forms™, then carefully being evaluated for its validity and reliability until considered fix. The e-questionairre sent via whatsapp™ to all of students. All the data collected put together in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, then being exported to SPSS™ ver. 21 for further analysis.Results: A number of 545 students respondended to electronic survey conducted via WhatsApp™. Our study on the effect of COVID to our student’s education revealed some supportive, but also inhibitory factors.Conclusions: To our knowledge, this can be a valuable input to faculty administrator in order to improve medical education delivery in the future.

Perception towards Online Classes during COVID-19 among Nursing Students of a Medical College of Kaski District, Nepal

“…Although one third of the respondents (34.6%) agreed that it is comfortable communicating electronically during online classes, 62.2% agreed that there is lack of interaction during online classes which is supported by a study of [16].…”

“…However, 62.6% disagreed to no specifi c preparation is needed to attend online classes. A study conducted among students of Indonesia also showed that 42.4% of students disagreed to no specifi c preparation is needed for long distance learning [16]. Online learning is suggested to be convenient and benefi cial for both students and instructors [20].…”

“…Further, a study done in Indonesia among medical students found some supportive but also inhibitory factors to distance learning. The most agreed supportive factor was location fl exibility (87.9%) and the most common inhibitory factor was signal dependent (80.2%) [16]. A study was conducted to assess the impact of E-learning among nursing students and teachers of Kathmandu during COVID-19 [17].…”

Conventional v/S Online Teaching During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perception of Undergraduate Medical Students of India

“…Majority (64.5%) students agreed that there was a lack of face to face communication, making online teaching less engaging and boring. Daroedono et al also agreed in their study that lack of concentration (77.6%), lack of understanding (77.8%), lack of interaction (62.95) was common (10). Whereas Seema Dutt Bandhu et al too observed that all students agreed on the usefulness of e-learning in medical education, only 27.5% found the medium of e-learning to be interesting, 37.5% considered it to be easy and accessible and 25% found it to be fast and easy (11).…”

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