Alshaibani Tarik, Almarabheh Amer, Jaradat Ahmed, Deifalla Abdelhalim
Physiology Department, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
Adv Med Educ Pract. 2023 Oct 6;14:1119-1127. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S408791. eCollection 2023.
As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, medical education at the Arabian Gulf University was instructed to apply online teaching instead of face-to-face for all phases of teaching at the University. Phase-1 is concerned with basic science courses delivered to year 1 students. We conducted this study to detect if there are any differences in the performance of medical students between online and face-to-face ways of learning. Also, a comparison between male and female performance in scientific courses was carried out in pre and during COVID-19 periods.
The participant were first year students for pre COVID-19 period from 2018 to 2019 and during COVID-19 period from 2020 to 2021. The university used Moodle and Zoom as an online way of teaching. The students' performance in the year 1 (three-semester) -online period of teaching were compared with a three-semester-performance of conventional teaching prior to COVID-19. This is a retrospective study that attempts to shed some light on the efficiency of AGU experience in online learning for year 1 (Phase I) students. This study evaluates the outcome of both, online and face-to-face examinations for scientific courses.
The results showed that the mean performance of year one medical students in all basic scientific courses (Phase I) during the coronavirus pandemic was greater than the mean performance before the pandemic with the exception of the Biostatistics course. The results by gender showed that the mean performance of females was better than males across all scientific courses before coronavirus. Also, during the COVID pandemic, the mean performance of females was better than males in all basic science courses.
Year -1 students' performance in science courses during the coronavirus period seems better than pre COVID19 era. Females' performance was better than males' in both periods; pre and during COVID -19 periods.
由于新冠疫情,阿拉伯海湾大学的医学教育被要求在大学教学的各个阶段采用在线教学而非面对面教学。第一阶段涉及向一年级学生讲授的基础科学课程。我们开展这项研究以检测医学生在在线学习和面对面学习方式下的成绩是否存在差异。此外,还对新冠疫情之前和期间理科课程中男女生的成绩进行了比较。
参与者为2018年至2019年新冠疫情之前以及2020年至2021年新冠疫情期间的一年级学生。该大学使用Moodle和Zoom进行在线教学。将学生在一年级(三个学期)在线教学期间的成绩与新冠疫情之前传统教学三个学期的成绩进行比较。这是一项回顾性研究,旨在揭示阿拉伯海湾大学一年级(第一阶段)学生在线学习体验的效率。本研究评估了理科课程在线考试和面对面考试的结果。
结果显示,在冠状病毒大流行期间,一年级医学生在所有基础科学课程(第一阶段)的平均成绩高于大流行之前的平均成绩,但生物统计学课程除外。按性别划分的结果显示,在冠状病毒出现之前,所有理科课程中女生的平均成绩均优于男生。此外,在新冠疫情期间,所有基础科学课程中女生的平均成绩也优于男生。
在冠状病毒时期,一年级学生在理科课程中的成绩似乎优于新冠疫情之前的时代。在新冠疫情之前和期间这两个时期,女生的成绩均优于男生。