Pandemi Döneminde Tıp Fakültesi Öğrencilerinin Uzaktan Eğitime Karşı Tutumları ve İlişkili Faktörler

Abstract

Objective: It is aimed to investigate the effect of distance education on medical faculty students, to determine the advantages and disadvantages of distance educationMaterials and Methods: Four hundred eighty-one (52.3%) of 919 medical faculty students participated in this descriptive study conducted on Sakarya University Faculty of Medicine students. The questionnaire form created by the researchers was sent to the students via Google forms. Evaluation of Views on Distance Education Scale (EVDES) was used to evaluate the views of the participants about distance education.Results: Sixty-three percent of the participants (303) were female, 37% (178) were male. The average age of the participants was 21.8 ± 2.02 years. While the maximum score from the EVDES is 90, the median score obtained by the participants is 46. The median score obtained by men from the EVDES was statistically significantly higher than the median score obtained by women (p = 0.016).Conclusion: Some characteristics such as female gender, being a semester student, attending less than half of the lessons, having problems with internet connection, having another individual taking distance education in the family negatively affected the views of the medical faculty students participating in the study about distance education.