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    Perception of MBBS students of online teaching learningmodalities in undergraduate medical education duringCOVID-19 pandemic
    (Universidad de Murcia: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2025) Mehta, Abhishek; Tripathi, Kiran; Anuragi, Chitra; Vishwakarma, Neeru; Sin departamento asociado
    Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of educationsystems in history. The entire educational system has suffered a drastic setback during theCOVID-19 pandemic, not only in India but across the globe. The pandemic situation has paved theway for the education system to evolve, with the distinctive rise of e-learning. Methods: ThisQuestionnaire based Cross-sectional Perception survey was executed through Google Forms on a5-point Likert scale involving 100 Final year MBBS students who had been subjected to aminimum of 3-4 months of online teaching. A pre-validated semi-structured self-administeredquestionnaire with 12 items was shared with study participants to assess perceptions towardsonline teaching. Results: 70% of students found online teaching enjoyable but half of the studentsfelt more distracted due to lack of interactivity and personal attention in the online sessions. One-third of students felt that online modalities can be used as effective learning tools in terms of betterunderstanding, and 46% felt that their use can improve academic performance. More than 40%believe that the online teaching was a temporary arrangement during the Pandemic situations andcould never be a substitute for the conventional teaching. Conclusion: Online teaching which wasincorporated into medical education as a temporary arrangement during the COVID era despiteseveral challenges has succeeded to some extent in imparting the requisite knowledge. Though e-learning may not replace conventional teaching modalities like didactic Lectures but can play asignificant role as an adjuvant learning tool.