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Journal Article
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing online teaching on pre-clinical medical education
2024
Overview
Background
Major disruptions and changes in education have occurred worldwide as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the ensuing shift from in-person to online education. However, the effect of such changes on medical education, its magnitude, and the learning domains impacted by such rapid changes have not been adequately addressed, particularly with regard to objective assessment approaches.
Methods
Second-year medical students enrolled in our Medical English Course between 2019 and 2021 were recruited from Hokkaido University, Japan (
N
= 321) to participate in this study. We evaluated the potential impact of teaching styles on the academic performance of students before (2019; face-to-face) and during (2020; online; 2021; in-person and online) the pandemic. We examined the potential effect of three teaching styles––in-person (2019), online (2020), and a combination of these (2021) on the academic performance of medical students using:
(i)
subjective assessment of self-reported general English skills, including reading, writing, listening, and speaking; and
(ii)
objective assessment of medical terminology scores, evidence-based medicine (EBM) skills, and final written exam scores.
Results
In-person education significantly improved listening and speaking skills in 2019 (
p
< 0.001). This trend was observed for writing skills in an online course in 2020 (
p
= 0.001). With the combined teaching method, students reported significant improvements in all four English skills. In our objective assessments, medical terminology improved significantly post-test versus pre-test for all three teaching styles, and we found that the online course did not adversely affect the gain in medical terminology knowledge during the course. Additionally, we did not find any significant differences across the three applied teaching styles regarding EBM skill levels. It is noteworthy that the students taking online courses had a significantly higher final exam score (mean ± SD; 82.8 ± 8.2) than in in-person (78.6 ± 8.8) and combined (79.7 ± 12.1) teaching styles.
Conclusions
In our study, the online/combined courses showed better academic outcomes compared to the face-to-face course in the preclinical clerkship. Although the current results need to be replicated on a larger scale, online/combined courses can continue and evolve in the post-pandemic education of medical students. Medical schools and institutions should consider incorporating such courses, especially combined courses, into their curricula in the future to improve the effectiveness, accessibility, and flexibility of medical education.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
