Perception Of Undergraduate Students to Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic At Tertiary Teaching Care Hospital

Undergraduate Students To Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic At Tertiary Teaching Care Hospital

Abstract

Background: The corona virus disease pandemic has created remarkable disruption in health system and medical education worldwide. On March 25,2020, the Indian government proclaimed state wise lockdown. During this pandemic, online classes became an educational change from conventional classroom teaching method. Our institute have conducted online classes during this pandemic. Objective of our study was to analyse undergraduate students' perspectives of online classes and compare this to traditional classroom teaching. Material And Methods: The pharmacology department at AMC MET medical college carried out a cross-sectional observational study. A total of 294 students (2nd MBBS and 2nd BDS) took part in the research. Students were given a pre-tested self-designed questionnaires to analyse the online teaching method. Result: In the present study shows that majority 107(36.3%) of the students believed that the course content provided in online classes was not helpful. We observed that majority 215(73.1%) of the students were dissatisfied with the practical knowledge provided in online classes. More than half 166(56.4%) of the students believed that online teaching is not helpful in various skill development. A total of 168(57.2%) students agreed to the statement that physical absence of teacher affects both teaching and learning. Only 85(28.9%) students believed that online classes are interactive. Conclusion: From above study we concluded that majority of students are not ready to adopt online teaching method. [sain A Natl J Integr Res Med, 2021; 12(5): 42-47]