Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: What students missed and what they did not. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study
Background: Medical education was and still is challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, and several strategies were implemented by the universities worldwide in order to maintain a good level of education. The aim of this work is to point out how strategies adopted in a German university hospital reache...
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| author | Manzini, Giulia Kornmann, Marko Kremer, Michael |
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| description | Background: Medical education was and still is challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, and several strategies were implemented by the universities worldwide in order to maintain a good level of education. The aim of this work is to point out how strategies adopted in a German university hospital reached students and how comfortable they felt with the proposed solutions in order to define future possibilities in modern teaching. Methods: A questionnaire was answered by medical students at the end of the 8 and 10 semester in a German university hospital asking them about their perception of medical education during the pandemic as well as about strategies adopted by the faculty. Results: A total of 92 out of 117 students answered the questionnaire response rate). Students felt disadvantaged in their medical education because of the pandemic on a scale from 0 (not at all) to (5.34±2.3, range 0–10 points), regardless of semester, gender, and whether they aimed at a surgical career or not. During the pandemic they missed practical exercises most (93.5%), followed by contact with other students (65.2%). Presence lessons were missed (28.3%) the least. Among the strategies offered to maintain education, recorded lessons were appreciated most, followed by skills labs. Live-stream lessons were considered less comfortable. Conclusions: Several aspects of medical education were replaced satisfactorily during the pandemic, others need to be adapted in the future in order to meet the students’ needs and expectations. Theoretical online education but not live stream lessons could be an option beyond as they are highly appreciated by students. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c151ad19ea124510849aa2701385f9242023-07-28T09:57:39ZdeuGerman Medical Science GMS Publishing HouseGMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery DGPW2193-80912023-07-0112Doc0510.3205/iprs000175Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: What students missed and what they did not. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional studyManzini, Giulia0Kornmann, Marko1Kremer, Michael2Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Hospital of Aarau, SwitzerlandDepartment of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital of Ulm, GermanyDepartment of Surgery, Hospital of Lachen, SwitzerlandBackground: Medical education was and still is challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, and several strategies were implemented by the universities worldwide in order to maintain a good level of education. The aim of this work is to point out how strategies adopted in a German university hospital reached students and how comfortable they felt with the proposed solutions in order to define future possibilities in modern teaching. Methods: A questionnaire was answered by medical students at the end of the 8 and 10 semester in a German university hospital asking them about their perception of medical education during the pandemic as well as about strategies adopted by the faculty. Results: A total of 92 out of 117 students answered the questionnaire response rate). Students felt disadvantaged in their medical education because of the pandemic on a scale from 0 (not at all) to (5.34±2.3, range 0–10 points), regardless of semester, gender, and whether they aimed at a surgical career or not. During the pandemic they missed practical exercises most (93.5%), followed by contact with other students (65.2%). Presence lessons were missed (28.3%) the least. Among the strategies offered to maintain education, recorded lessons were appreciated most, followed by skills labs. Live-stream lessons were considered less comfortable. Conclusions: Several aspects of medical education were replaced satisfactorily during the pandemic, others need to be adapted in the future in order to meet the students’ needs and expectations. Theoretical online education but not live stream lessons could be an option beyond as they are highly appreciated by students.http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/iprs/2023-12/iprs000175.shtmlmedical educationstrategiesonline learningpandemicskills lab |
| spellingShingle | Manzini, Giulia Kornmann, Marko Kremer, Michael Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: What students missed and what they did not. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery DGPW medical education strategies online learning pandemic skills lab |
| title | Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: What students missed and what they did not. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: What students missed and what they did not. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: What students missed and what they did not. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: What students missed and what they did not. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: What students missed and what they did not. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | medical education during the covid 19 pandemic what students missed and what they did not a questionnaire based cross sectional study |
| topic | medical education strategies online learning pandemic skills lab |
| url | http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/iprs/2023-12/iprs000175.shtml |
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