Holzmann-Littig, Christopher and Zerban, Nina L. and Storm, Clara and Ulhaas, Lilian and Pfeiffer, Mona and Kotz, Alexander and Wijnen-Meijer, Marjo and Keil, Stephanie and Huber, Johanna (2022) One academic year under COVID-19 conditions: two multicenter cross-sectional evaluation studies among medical students in Bavarian medical schools, Germany students' needs, difficulties, and concerns about digital teaching and learning. BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION, 22 (1): 450. ISSN , 1472-6920
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Background: Since March 2020, COVID-19 has created a need for adaptation in many areas of life. This study explores medical students' perspectives on digital teaching under conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on expectations and concerns about digital teaching, the evaluation of specific aspects of teaching, and requests for future teaching. Methods: Six German faculties have joined forces within the Bavarian network for medical education to develop and deploy a common core questionnaire. Cross-sectional surveys were conducted at the end of the summer semester 2020 and winter semester 2020/21. Medical students from different semesters participated in the online survey. Data was analyzed descriptively and/or inferentially. Item differences across semesters were examined using contingency tables and Chi' tests. Mean values were compared using the independent samples t-test; answer frequencies in retrospective and prospective concerns were compared using contingency tables and Chi' tests with Yates' correction. Results: In the summer semester 2020, 1565 students and in winter semester 2020/21, 1727 students took part in the survey. Students' main prospective concern was lack of social exchange between fellow students (70%), but also with teachers. Second and third most often concerns were a lack of practical training (68%) and lack of integration of on-site digital teaching (50%). Approximately 7% of the students lacked sufficient access to technical equipment.. Approximately 39% of the students lacked a sufficient internet connection for synchronous digital teaching, 17% for asynchronous digital teaching. On-site teaching was the preferred form of teaching (60%), and there was a preference for asynchronous (24%) over synchronous (15%) digital teaching. Teaching recordings (79%) were particularly popular to complement future on-site teaching. Conclusions: The following areas of education under COVID-19 conditions are highly important to medical students: adequacy of information sharing, integration of opportunities for exchange with fellow students and teachers, possibility to perform practical trainings. After the normalization of the pandemic situation, on-site teaching should be supplemented with blended learning concepts such as the inverted classroom model.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ; COVID-19; Pandemics; Medical education; Medical students; Medical schools; Distance education; Digital teaching and learning; New Normal; Evaluation study |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2024 10:06 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2024 10:06 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/58424 |
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