Abstract
The study explores higher medical education transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the world and Ukraine. It also highlights the current trends – coronavirus quarantine and digitalization of medical education. The article also aims to study international medical students’ needs and perspectives on the eve of quarantine and their attitude to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. The research is based on surveys of first-year international medical students, chosen at random. It allowed students to provide feedback on their country of origin, satisfaction, ways of financing the study, and future career plans, as well as their attitude to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The qualitative data analysis lets advocate that coronavirus has determined a deep transformation in higher medical education and affected international medical student population. First, coronavirus has changed the role of medical students and internship. Second, it has fastened transition from traditional to digitally-based education and brought distance learning and exams worldwide. On the eve of the quarantine, Ukraine is becoming a host country for international students primarily from Asia and Africa. Among the reasons for international students’ choice of Ukraine as a place for study are their country preference, high-quality education, friends’ advice and geographical location. The international medical students consider Ukraine not only as a high-quality medical education provider but as the perspective country for postgraduate employment. Besides, the majority of first-year international medical students find remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic supporting, effective but tiring. The research creates a paradigm for future studies of the international medical students’ phenomenon.
Highlights
Globalization and internationalization have resulted in increasing the international students’ population, predominantly in medical education, that has been granted exceptional status
Ukrainian for the interview was chosen by the non-English-speaking international medical students, who chose the program taught in Ukrainian – 7,59% (12 respondents)
The difference in future career plans an important role as well in attracting new of international medical students is explained by the international customers in educational medical country of origin
Summary
Globalization and internationalization have resulted in increasing the international students’ population, predominantly in medical education, that has been granted exceptional status. Official sites of EduCanada and Studying in the UK and The first 10-question online questionnaire was Coronavirus (COVID-19), their national universities are administered online for the first-year international medical currently providing programs online. How do international medical students find remote learning during country of origin, preferences, educational background, needs, experience, satisfaction with educational services at the host institution, ways of financing the study, and their future career plans, as well as their attitude to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 1-st The COVID-19 pandemic has caused quantitative and Universal Journal of Educational Research 8(12B): 8393-8401, 2020 qualitative changes in international medical education worldwide. Remote learning has transformed traditional face-to-face medical education to a digitally-based format, bringing to medical universities videoconferences, small group teaching with precautions, e-learning modules and “archived surgical videos with technical pointers from experienced faculty and usage of surgical simulators” [18]
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