Departmemt of Anatomy, Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Nepal.
Department of Physiology, Kathmandu Medical college and Teaching Hospital, Bhaktapur, Nepal.
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. 2021 Aug 12;59(240):767-770. doi: 10.31729/jnma.6575.
The pandemic of COVID-19 affected every single person in the world. This pandemic also affected the academics of medical and dental colleges of Nepal. In these conditions, the virtual study was used as an emergency measure during the COVID-19 period, with an adaptation to the "new normal" to deliver preclinical medical education. This has brought both challenges and opportunities to medical education. The objective of the study is to find out whether the anatomy virtual classes were helpful among the first and second year medical and dental students of a medical college.
The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 206 first and second-year medical and dental students of a medical college between 1st May 2021-31st May 2021 after getting the ethical clearance from the Institutional Review Committee (reference no. 0504202109). The convenient sampling was done. The data were analyzed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 20 version. Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and percentage for binary data.
Out of the total 206 students, 173 (84%) (78.99-89.01 at 95% Confidence Interval) found that virtual anatomy classes were not helpful for the study of the anatomy classes.
From the study, we conclude that more than half of the students found that virtual classes were not helpful for the study of anatomy classes. Students have difficulty in studying dissection, cadaveric, and embryological structures via virtual classes. Physical class is better for studying anatomy than virtual classes for medical and dental students.
COVID-19 大流行影响了世界上的每一个人。这场大流行也影响了尼泊尔医学和牙科学院的学术。在这种情况下，虚拟学习被用作 COVID-19 期间的紧急措施，以适应“新常态”来提供临床前医学教育。这给医学教育带来了挑战和机遇。本研究的目的是了解医学院的一年级和二年级医学生和牙科学是否认为解剖虚拟课程有帮助。
这是一项描述性的横断面研究，在获得机构审查委员会（参考编号 0504202109）的伦理批准后，于 2021 年 5 月 1 日至 31 日期间，对一所医学院的 206 名一年级和二年级医学生和牙科学进行了研究。采用方便抽样法。使用社会科学统计软件包 20 版对数据进行分析。计算了点估计值和 95%置信区间，以及二进制数据的频率和百分比。
在总共 206 名学生中，有 173 名（84%）（95%置信区间为 78.99-89.01）认为虚拟解剖课程对学习解剖课程没有帮助。
从研究中我们得出结论，超过一半的学生认为虚拟课程对学习解剖课程没有帮助。学生通过虚拟课程学习解剖、尸体和胚胎结构有困难。对于医学生和牙科学来说，实体课程比虚拟课程更适合学习解剖。
