ABSTRACT
Introduction: The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11th of March 2020. This pandemic of covid-19 had serious implications for public institutions especially due to lockdowns. As a result of lockdowns, E-learning has rapidly emerged as an alternative to traditional classroom-based education. The main concerns among medical students is the quality of medical education due to online classes. Objective(s): This study was conducted to assess perceptive of online teaching among medical students of new medical colleges of Jammu. Method(s): This was a Cross-sectional study conducted among 389 medical students of new government medical colleges of Jammu division of Jammu & Kashmir situated in North India. The survey questionnaire included questions asking about socio-demographic data such as sex, age, phase of study etc. and their attitude towards online classes. Data retrieved from the online survey was entered into Microsoft Excel and then analyzed using SPSS version 25.A univariate analysis was used to explore the associations between sample characteristics and the perception of online classes during the COVID19 epidemic. Result(s): Majority of students (70.5%) were of view that lockdown has affected their studies.64% were not comfortable with online teaching learning method. 64.5% were not satisfied with this form of teaching and 69.2% don't want this method to continue in future.61.2 % of students were not sure about overall effect of online teaching on studies while 23.9% were of opinion that online teaching has negatively effected their studies.On applying non parametric tests residence and college of students were found to be statistically significant relationship on the effect on studies. Conclusion(s): Despite the challenges posed by the covid pandemic, several resourceful initiatives like online learning techniques can be implemented to complete the curricula.Copyright © 2023, Dr Yashwant Research Labs Pvt Ltd. All rights reserved.