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Introduction: The present pandemic caused by COVID 19 has affected the world as a whole and social distancing became a part of our lives. Medical education like any other form of education was affected and online classes came to the rescue. Methods: This study was conducted with the rationale to find out how effective are online classes and what measures can be taken to further to simulate online classes as near as possible to physical classes. Google forms were given to undergraduate medical students. 183 students participated in this study. Likert’s scale was used to grade the scores from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Results: The observations revealed that only 2.73% students strongly agreed being comfortable with online classes and 6.55% participants strongly agreed that their internet connectivity was good. 1.64% strongly agreed and that they were able to follow the class and 14.98% strongly disagreed that there were no distracting agent. 16.94% strongly agreed that they are accustomed with the smart devices being used. About 25.13% disagreed that voice quality was good. Majority strongly agreed that recorded videos and hard copies of the class material would be helpful. On being asked if online classes are as good as the physical classes for theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge, most of them disagreed. Conclusion: Online classes is the important resource in hand for continuing medical teaching during pandemics, there is need to take more efforts for making it student-friendly by incorporating audio, video and texts which are interesting for the students. Technological support should be provided by institution and appropriate Faculty training is needed. © 2022, Medicolegal Association of Maharashtra. All rights reserved.
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The whole world at present is under the grasp of a pandemic termed as COVID-19. The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines suggest that the social distancing norms are followed with contactless operations as far as possible. Therefore, the population around the world is turning towards efficient modes of operating the daily work with minimal human contact. To contain the spread of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, it is important and suitable to deploy machinery for operating in conditions wherever social distancing is required. The multipurpose robot makes it feasible to minimize human contact and carry out operations without the risk of the spread of the virus. This chapter aims at the fabrication of a robot that can have multiple utilities and is employed in different areas as per the requirement of the user. © 2021 Scrivener Publishing LLC.
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The world wide spread of covid-19 has vexed the ordinariness of every human being's day to day life, forcing population to social distancing and self-isolation. Like the rest of the world, medical undergraduate students are suffering from stress. The objective of the study is to assess whether regular physical activity has any correlation with perceived stress scale (PSS) of medical undergraduate students during Covid-19 pandemic. The aim of the present study is to find out if regular physical activity has any correlation with perceived stress level in undergraduate medical students during Covid-19 pandemic. The present study was a questionnaire based cross-sectional study on perceived stress scale and International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Data were entered into SPSS software and Pearson's correlation was calculated for perceived stress with sex, age, year of M.B.B.S, place of residence, involvement in regular physical activity, duration, frequency per week and METs per week. Chi-square test was used to analyse categorical variables and P<0.01 was considered statistically significant. 183 undergraduate medical students participated in the study. Only 26.2% were involved in regular physical activities and 56.8% scored very high on PSS. The mean PSS score was 22.37±6.42. 66.7% of the respondents had less than 600 METs per week and scored low in IPAQ. Pearson's correlation was applied between PSS score and PA and it turned out to be -0.709 which signifies strong negative correlation between the variables. Based on the current study, it can be stated that those respondents involved in regular physical activities were found to perceive less stress than those without regular physical activities. Hence, it is recommended that medical students should be encouraged to partake in regular physical activities during this pandemic. © 2022. All Rights Reserved.