Abstract
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption in medical education. Students and lecturers had to adapt to online education. The current study aimed to investigate the level of satisfaction and future preference for online lectures among clinical clerkship students and elucidated the factors that affect these outcomes.MethodsWe selected a sample of 114 medical students undergoing clinical clerkship during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted onsite lectures before the pandemic and online lectures after the outbreak. A survey was conducted, and the sample included students and 17 lecturers. The average scores of total satisfaction and future preference related to online lectures were computed.ResultsStudents’ scores on total satisfaction with online lectures and their future preference were higher than those for onsite lectures. Scores on the ease of debating dimension were low and those on accessibility of lectures in online lectures were higher than those in onsite lectures. There was no difference between the two groups in the scores on the comprehensibility and ease of asking questions dimensions. Results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that accessibility determined total satisfaction, and future preference was determined by comprehensibility as well as accessibility. Contrary to students’ future preferences, lecturers favored onsite lectures to online ones.ConclusionOnline lectures are an acceptable mode of teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic for students undergoing clinical clerkship. Online lectures are expected to become more pervasive to avoid the spread of COVID-19.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption in medical education
This study aimed to explore the level of satisfaction and future preferences of students undergoing clinical clerkship with regard to online lectures, and analyzed the determining factors
The scores for ease of asking questions, especially accessibility to the lectures and total satisfaction tended to improve in the late-term group as compared to the early-term group, indicating that familiarity with online lectures caused an improvement in these factors (Fig. 4)
Summary
Students and lecturers had to adapt to online education. The current study aimed to investigate the level of satisfaction and future preference for online lectures among clinical clerkship students and elucidated the factors that affect these outcomes. Students attended lectures on-site before the pandemic [1,2,3]. Yagi et al BMC Medical Education (2022) 22:43 students and lecturers in Japanese medical universities had to adapt to online lectures. Online lectures are a safe alternative to onsite classes and have been known to be effective in knowledge acquisition [7]. Some studies have reported that online lectures have been well-received by undergraduate medical students and have been perceived to be as effective, useful, and enjoyable as traditional teaching [8, 9]. Online lectures can improve learning outcomes [10]
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