Investigation and analysis of the online learning status of medical students in a medical college in Guangzhou / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the online learning status of medical undergraduates in Guangzhou during the epidemic of COVID-19, so as to provide basis for improving online medical education in colleges and universities.Methods:From March 27, 2020 to April 10, 2020, a self-compiled questionnaire was used to investigate the online learning status of medical students in a medical college in Guangzhou by using snowball sampling and convenience sampling. SPSS 25.0 was used for data analysis, and frequency and percentage (%) were used to describe the enumeration data.Results:According to the survey, 63.8% of students studied for average 3-6 hours each day. Among the online learning platforms, the usage rate of MOOC was the highest (1 230, 92.9%), and 56.0% of medical students' self-assessment of online learning results are ordinary. The main factors affecting learning effect are visual fatigue (1 051, 79.4%), lack of learning atmosphere and inability to concentrate at home (960, 72.5%), and inconvenient operation due to different platforms for certain different courses (940, 71.0%). There are 32.2% of medical students who dislike the comprehensive online teaching mode. Due to the limitations of online experimental teaching, 61.0% of medical students indicated that the learning effect of experimental classes was affected.Conclusion:Comprehensive online teaching has certain limitations. Corresponding measures should be taken from the following four aspects of college teachers, teaching platforms, students themselves, and college management departments to help the development of online medical teaching.