Advances in Medical Education and Practice (Apr 2021)

A Response to “The Satisfaction Level of Undergraduate Medical and Nursing Students Regarding Distant Preclinical and Clinical Teaching Amidst COVID-19 Across India” [Response to Letter]

  • Dutta S,
  • Ambwani S,
  • Lal H,
  • Ram K,
  • Mishra G,
  • Kumar T,
  • Varthya SB

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Volume 12
pp. 349 – 350

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Siddhartha Dutta, Sneha Ambwani, Hina Lal, Kishna Ram, Govind Mishra, Tarun Kumar, Shoban Babu Varthya Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IndiaCorrespondence: Tarun KumarDepartment of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Room No. C-280, Second Floor, Medical College Building, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 352005, IndiaTel +918447875716Email [email protected] would like to thank the authors for showing interest in our article and appreciate the helpful comments and suggestions from Neev Trehan, Joel Conway, and Praneeth Vedagiri from the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK for our article titled “The Satisfaction Level of Undergraduate Medical and Nursing Students Regarding Distant Preclinical and Clinical Teaching Amidst COVID-19 Across India”. 1Concerning to the first query, we deeply agree with the fact that “satisfaction” is a broad concept and has varied domains. With regard to describing a particular type of teaching style, we would like to notify that the present study analyzed the online teaching of the medical and nursing students owing to the abrupt change in the pattern of teaching from physical lectures and practical exercises to complete online mode due to lockdown and isolation recommendations from the administration and government. The current study was not a single-center study but analyzed the online teaching in various institutions across India which included a diverse method of teaching like lectures, practical exercises, assignments that were taught through PPTs or other possible modes available to them. Focusing on a single mode of teaching would have been more prudent but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire medical and nursing curriculum was shifted to online mode for the first time for which they were not prepared. Hence, we planned to analyze the impact on teaching entirely. This is in response to the Letter to the Editor View the original paper by Dutta and colleagues