Medical & Health Services Administration, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran , talarposhtiabdi@yahoo.com
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Introduction: The global health crisis caused by the COVID 19 pandemic that began in 2019 has turned higher education around the world into a challenging issue. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual education on learning of medical students during COVID 19. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed with a census on 145 medical students through a standard questionnaire derived from clinical education standards. In comparison of effectiveness average, we used t-test and one-way ANOVA tests for two and three level and more respectively. All analyses were performed on STATA/16. Results: During COVID 19 pandemic, virtual education had the most effectiveness (26% variance and 7. 41% specificity) in compare to NAVID system (14% variance and 3. 99% specificity) on medical students learning. Effectiveness of virtual method (morning report, virtual conference, NAVID, text review and journal club) regarding to any level of medical students was significant (P-value=0. 002). Comparison of gender variables and educational department did not indicate any difference. With the exception that the text review domain of the internal training group obtained a lower effectiveness score than the infectious group (p-value = 0. 048). Conclusion: Based on medical students’ comments virtual journal club and NAVID had most and least effectiveness. As a result, students find new content available through up-to-date articles from reputable online and group journals with discussion and exchange more effective than a system set up offline. Therefore, it is recommended to move NAVID to online and interactive approach to make active space accessible for students.
Alikhani A, Abbaspour Kasgari H, Kazeminejad A, Rezapour M, Kakoei H, Sepahi L et al . Examining the effectiveness of virtual education on clinical medical teaching during COVID-19 pandemic in Razi educational hospital of Ghaemshahr. Iranian Journal of Medical Education 2022; 22 :144-153 URL: http://ijme.mui.ac.ir/article-1-5446-en.html