Online anatomy lecture using zoom application and its learning experience of undergraduate medical students

Abstract

Background: During the COVID19 pandemic as per different government advisories when the physical classes in medical educational institutes got closed, teaching was carried on in online platform. In a Kolkata based medical colleges with 250 annual admission strength, faculties used the ‘zoom’ as online lecture platform in teaching Anatomy. This study was aimed to explore the students’ learning experience and their feedback on such online Anatomy classes. Method: After four weeks of such online lecture classes with four classes per week; students’ opinion was obtained by google-form based pretested semi structured questionnaire. Result: Out of total 174 students returned with the fully filled up data. 68% students replied that they were first time exposed to the online teaching process. Students opined that except the dissection class, almost all other varieties of sessions could be made feasible in online mode. Majority of them (89.19%) they liked the histology sessions as tough in zoom sessions. They perceived the online class more advantageous for clear shared-screen, more eye-to-eye contact and possible recordings of the classes; although the gross disadvantage was mentioned by them is the internet connectivity, time constrains, multiple slots to cover entire batch of students etc. Students polled for early morning classes instead of late hours. Almost half of the students felt interested to continue such online classes even after the normalcy resumes. Conclusion: The online teaching platform was new to the teachers and majority of them were not well accustomed to handle the sessions. So this students’ feedback helped us to rectify the sessions organised thereafter.

Keywords

• covid19 pandemic
• mbbs education
• online teaching
• students’ feedback