Utility of Real-Time Online Teaching During COVID Era Among Surgery Postgraduates
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Utility of Real-Time Online Teaching During COVID Era Among Surgery Postgraduates Vivek Srivastava 1 & Vaibhav Pandey 2 & Preeti Tiwari 3
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Sandeep Patel 4 & Mumtaz A. Ansari 1 & Vijay K. Shukla 1
Received: 4 July 2020 / Accepted: 26 August 2020 # Association of Surgeons of India 2020
Abstract A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the utility of online teaching for general surgery postgraduate residents at the end of 1 month of online teaching during the COVID-19 lockdown. A questionnaire related to different aspects of online teaching was developed on a 5-point Likert scale from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree”. Following a pilot study, the questionnaire was shared among surgery residents, and response collection was done. The residents who did not attend at least 90% of scheduled classes were excluded. A total of 55 resident doctors without prior experience of online teaching program were enrolled in the study. All the participants responded to all questions and submitted their responses within stipulated time. On the basis of validity testing, questions 1 and 2 were found invalid and hence deleted. The median value for the total cohort was 4 indicating that majority of residents gave affirmative response. On segregating the result with the year of residency program, similar results were found in the 1st year and 2nd year group; however, the 3rd year group showed a median of 3, thus eliciting that only 50% of 3rd year residents liked online teaching. From the present study, it can be concluded that the online teaching is a feasible alternative to the physical class among surgical postgraduates. The questionnaire utilized in the present study can be used for assessing similar online teaching protocols. Keywords COVID- 19 . Medical education . e-Learning . Medical education . SARS-CoV-2 . Coronavirus
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the life of most people across countries, age, race and profession. The teaching institutions were closed, and students were sent home well before the nationwide lockdown was announced. At most of the institutions in India, the medical postgraduates gradually restarted teaching, though on a different “online platform” [1]. The palpable panic of this new pandemic and the accessibility to good quality Internet have given a boom to various
online educational programs in the form of sharing of clinical material, discussion on social media groups and real-time online teaching on platforms like Zoom®, GoToWebinar®, Cisco Webex® and Google Classroom®. It has been shown that e-learning can foster learning equivalent to traditional didactic lectures and medical students even find e-learning enjoyable [2, 3]. Although not in routine practice, the online teaching programme may be a feasible option in times of disruption of conventional teaching modes. We herein share our early initial
* Preeti Tiwari [email protected]
Vijay K. Shukla [email protected]
Vivek Srivastava [email protected]
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Department of General Surgery,
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