Abstract
With COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the educational system, the professional medical teaching has been shiftedto online mode soon after the Government’s decision to impose nation-wide lock-down.A cross sectional study was carried out among medical undergraduate in VIMS to know their perception on elearning.The questionnaire was administered through google forms and the results were analysed using descriptivestatistics. Among 340 study subjects, the mean age was found to be 20.47 and the majority of responders were firstyear undergraduates. Most students depended on smartphones for attending classes. The maximum satisfactionindex (55.47%) observed with more time spend on homework and the minimum (39.85%) with greater ability toconcentrate in online class. On a Likert scale of perception assessment 32.9% of students disagreed with conductingonline classes followed by 31.2% remained neutral. Overall experience recorded bad with 57.6%. Online learninghas been the need of the hour but it should be backed up with traditional learning for effective results.
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