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Cross-Country Student Perceptions about Online Medical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic

(1) Introduction: Most educational institutions around the world have shifted from traditional face-to-face to online education amid COVID-19. This change may particularly impact medical students, whose education is heavily influenced by clinical learning experiences. Accordingly, we investigated me...

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Autores principales: Suzuki, Tomoya, Murayama, Anju, Kotera, Yasuhiro, Bhandari, Divya, Senoo, Yuki, Tani, Yuta, Harada, Kayo, Kawamoto, Ayumu, Sato, Satomi, Sawano, Toyoaki, Miyata, Yasushi, Tsubokura, Masaharu, Tanimoto, Tetsuya, Ozaki, Akihiko
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270533
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052840
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author Suzuki, Tomoya
Murayama, Anju
Kotera, Yasuhiro
Bhandari, Divya
Senoo, Yuki
Tani, Yuta
Harada, Kayo
Kawamoto, Ayumu
Sato, Satomi
Sawano, Toyoaki
Miyata, Yasushi
Tsubokura, Masaharu
Tanimoto, Tetsuya
Ozaki, Akihiko
author_facet Suzuki, Tomoya
Murayama, Anju
Kotera, Yasuhiro
Bhandari, Divya
Senoo, Yuki
Tani, Yuta
Harada, Kayo
Kawamoto, Ayumu
Sato, Satomi
Sawano, Toyoaki
Miyata, Yasushi
Tsubokura, Masaharu
Tanimoto, Tetsuya
Ozaki, Akihiko
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description (1) Introduction: Most educational institutions around the world have shifted from traditional face-to-face to online education amid COVID-19. This change may particularly impact medical students, whose education is heavily influenced by clinical learning experiences. Accordingly, we investigated medical students’ perceptions about positive and negative aspects of online medical education in Japan and overseas during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2) Methods: In-depth online interviews were conducted among 13 Japanese medical students and five medical students from Slovakia, Norway, and Hungary. Interviews were conducted from 23rd September to 3rd October 2020 using the snowball sampling method. Questions were focused on five main areas: Q1 the type of online education; Q2 advantages and disadvantages of online education; Q3 any changes in the relationship with teachers, friends, and family; Q4 any opinions about further improvements in online education; and Q5 any needs for affiliation with a particular university. Then thematic analysis was conducted. (3) Results: The results of the thematic analysis revealed the following four themes that represent the positive and negative aspects of online medical education; Theme 1: Timesaving and Flexibility; Theme 2: Technical problems and lack of digital skills; Theme 3: Unstandardized teaching skills; Theme 4: Lack of experience beyond medical school lectures. (4) Conclusions: While online education was found useful in terms of saving time and creating a flexible learning environment, many important drawbacks were noted such as internet and computer problems and unstandardized teaching skills, and lack of quality assurance. In addition, experiences outside the classroom such as making relationships with faculty and friends, conducting research and participating in extracurricular activities were missed, which they normally enjoy in college life.
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spelling pubmed-89102352022-03-11 Cross-Country Student Perceptions about Online Medical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic Suzuki, Tomoya Murayama, Anju Kotera, Yasuhiro Bhandari, Divya Senoo, Yuki Tani, Yuta Harada, Kayo Kawamoto, Ayumu Sato, Satomi Sawano, Toyoaki Miyata, Yasushi Tsubokura, Masaharu Tanimoto, Tetsuya Ozaki, Akihiko Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Introduction: Most educational institutions around the world have shifted from traditional face-to-face to online education amid COVID-19. This change may particularly impact medical students, whose education is heavily influenced by clinical learning experiences. Accordingly, we investigated medical students’ perceptions about positive and negative aspects of online medical education in Japan and overseas during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2) Methods: In-depth online interviews were conducted among 13 Japanese medical students and five medical students from Slovakia, Norway, and Hungary. Interviews were conducted from 23rd September to 3rd October 2020 using the snowball sampling method. Questions were focused on five main areas: Q1 the type of online education; Q2 advantages and disadvantages of online education; Q3 any changes in the relationship with teachers, friends, and family; Q4 any opinions about further improvements in online education; and Q5 any needs for affiliation with a particular university. Then thematic analysis was conducted. (3) Results: The results of the thematic analysis revealed the following four themes that represent the positive and negative aspects of online medical education; Theme 1: Timesaving and Flexibility; Theme 2: Technical problems and lack of digital skills; Theme 3: Unstandardized teaching skills; Theme 4: Lack of experience beyond medical school lectures. (4) Conclusions: While online education was found useful in terms of saving time and creating a flexible learning environment, many important drawbacks were noted such as internet and computer problems and unstandardized teaching skills, and lack of quality assurance. In addition, experiences outside the classroom such as making relationships with faculty and friends, conducting research and participating in extracurricular activities were missed, which they normally enjoy in college life. MDPI 2022-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8910235/ /pubmed/35270533 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052840 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Suzuki, Tomoya
Murayama, Anju
Kotera, Yasuhiro
Bhandari, Divya
Senoo, Yuki
Tani, Yuta
Harada, Kayo
Kawamoto, Ayumu
Sato, Satomi
Sawano, Toyoaki
Miyata, Yasushi
Tsubokura, Masaharu
Tanimoto, Tetsuya
Ozaki, Akihiko
Cross-Country Student Perceptions about Online Medical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_fullStr Cross-Country Student Perceptions about Online Medical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Cross-Country Student Perceptions about Online Medical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_sort cross-country student perceptions about online medical education during the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270533
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052840
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