Use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The current pandemic has revolutionized medical education with a rapid shift to online teaching and learning strategies. The students have coped by turning to the online resources to keep pace with the change. To determine the type and practice of online resources used by undergraduate medical stude...
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| author | Khalid M Alabdulwahhab Syed Yousaf Kazmi Waqas Sami Khaled Nasser Almujel Mohammed Hamed Alanazi Khalid Falah Alanazi Abdullah Meshal Moyana Mohammad Shakil Ahmad Tariq A Alasbali Fahd Al Alwadani |
| author_facet | Khalid M Alabdulwahhab Syed Yousaf Kazmi Waqas Sami Khaled Nasser Almujel Mohammed Hamed Alanazi Khalid Falah Alanazi Abdullah Meshal Moyana Mohammad Shakil Ahmad Tariq A Alasbali Fahd Al Alwadani |
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| description | The current pandemic has revolutionized medical education with a rapid shift to online teaching and learning strategies. The students have coped by turning to the online resources to keep pace with the change. To determine the type and practice of online resources used by undergraduate medical students and compare the use of online resources with gender and GPA. This was a cross-sectional study in which an online self-administered questionnaire was used to evaluate the type and practices of the online resources used by the medical students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Complete enumeration sampling method was used to collect the data from 180 medical students studying at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. One hundred and thirty students (72.2%) were unaware of the free online resources offered by the University. Most students (58.3%, n = 105) consulted peers for online references. Male students preferred PowerPoint presentations and consulting online resources for studying as compared to the females, whereas females preferred to study textbooks predominantly as compared to males (p = 0.005). Male students significantly shifted to the online resources during the COVID-19 pandemic as compared to females (p = 0.028). Students with the highest GPA scores shifted to online educational resources during pandemic. A significant proportion of the undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University used online educational resources for learning. We recommend that the college administration for deliberation with the medical educationalists for necessary curricular amendments and taking necessary steps to make the college Academic supervision and mentorship program more proactive to meet the challenges of students' use of online educational resources. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-668bf05138a14c329ecf267f70149c512022-12-21T18:30:00ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01168e025563510.1371/journal.pone.0255635Use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Khalid M AlabdulwahhabSyed Yousaf KazmiWaqas SamiKhaled Nasser AlmujelMohammed Hamed AlanaziKhalid Falah AlanaziAbdullah Meshal MoyanaMohammad Shakil AhmadTariq A AlasbaliFahd Al AlwadaniThe current pandemic has revolutionized medical education with a rapid shift to online teaching and learning strategies. The students have coped by turning to the online resources to keep pace with the change. To determine the type and practice of online resources used by undergraduate medical students and compare the use of online resources with gender and GPA. This was a cross-sectional study in which an online self-administered questionnaire was used to evaluate the type and practices of the online resources used by the medical students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Complete enumeration sampling method was used to collect the data from 180 medical students studying at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. One hundred and thirty students (72.2%) were unaware of the free online resources offered by the University. Most students (58.3%, n = 105) consulted peers for online references. Male students preferred PowerPoint presentations and consulting online resources for studying as compared to the females, whereas females preferred to study textbooks predominantly as compared to males (p = 0.005). Male students significantly shifted to the online resources during the COVID-19 pandemic as compared to females (p = 0.028). Students with the highest GPA scores shifted to online educational resources during pandemic. A significant proportion of the undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University used online educational resources for learning. We recommend that the college administration for deliberation with the medical educationalists for necessary curricular amendments and taking necessary steps to make the college Academic supervision and mentorship program more proactive to meet the challenges of students' use of online educational resources.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255635 |
| spellingShingle | Khalid M Alabdulwahhab Syed Yousaf Kazmi Waqas Sami Khaled Nasser Almujel Mohammed Hamed Alanazi Khalid Falah Alanazi Abdullah Meshal Moyana Mohammad Shakil Ahmad Tariq A Alasbali Fahd Al Alwadani Use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE |
| title | Use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| title_full | Use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| title_fullStr | Use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| title_short | Use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| title_sort | use of online resources by undergraduate medical students at college of medicine majmaah university kingdom of saudi arabia |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255635 |
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