A comparative account using student feedback on diverse modules of e-learning used during COVID-19 lockdown for undergraduate medical teaching

Abstract

Need has been the mother of innovation and with the global pandemic of the highly infectious disease COVID 19, there has been a paradigm shift from conventional teaching to digital mode of virtual teaching methods. This task has been achieved by using various platforms available on the digital network, the internet. This work describes the change in medical education, using student feed-back on various modules used in teaching during that period. The feedback survey was conducted online by using the available platforms. The Google forms were used as a survey tool for conducting this survey. The responses were collected from all implied consenting students attending the various teaching sessions across different years of training, belonging to our medical institution. All the participants were adult students attending a medical college. The response rate among the participants was 54%. The respondents were majority 184 (76%) female gender. Nearly 90% opted for Google Meet/classroom as a preferred online module. The choice of selecting this module among the students was found to be statistically significant as compared to other options. The selection was based on the virtue of attributes such as user-friendly application, user satisfaction, beneficial, appealing, less technically challenging, convenient and cost-effective nature. Hence to conclude we may imply to say that this study was unique in assessing the mind of the medical students against this novel e-learning based online mode of education which has taken them by surprise. Though the method is good, there is a lacking that it has; as compared to the conventional means of teaching. This may be used to revise and consolidate the teaching process but not as to replace the classical method rather it should complement it.