PMID- 37789926
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231030
IS  - 1179-7258 (Print)
IS  - 1179-7258 (Electronic)
IS  - 1179-7258 (Linking)
VI  - 14
DP  - 2023
TI  - Medical, Dental, and Nursing Students' Experience with Virtual Practical 
      Sessions: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Developing Country.
PG  - 1045-1054
LID - 10.2147/AMEP.S425144 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the scope of healthcare education 
      and shifted the teaching methods from on-campus to virtual. The impact of such a 
      shift has rarely been investigated, and limited evidence exists about students' 
      experience in terms of effort made and time spent, especially for laboratory 
      sessions. Assessing students' experiences will provide paramount evidence to 
      fine-tune laboratory virtual learning sessions. OBJECTIVE: To assess students' 
      experience of virtual (online) laboratory sessions versus on-campus laboratory 
      sessions, including preference, time spent, the effort made, ability to remember 
      instructions, and preference for future teaching. METHODS: A cross-sectional 
      study was utilized. A Google Forms questionnaire was prepared and sent to 
      medicine, dentistry, and nursing school students registered at Jordan University 
      of Science and Technology (JUST) during the 2019/2020 academic year. 
      Self-reported preference, time spent, efforts made, ability to remember 
      instructions and preference for future teaching were assessed for virtual versus 
      on-campus anatomy, pathology, microbiology, histology, and physiology laboratory 
      sessions. RESULTS: A total of 455 students participated in this questionnaire. 
      More students in histology (55.2%), pathology (57.4%), and microbiology (55.3%) 
      laboratories, but not anatomy (39.6%) physiology (443.95), reported preferring 
      virtual sessions over on-campus sessions. More students from histology (35.6%) 
      and microbiology (37.0%) reported spending less effort than on-campus sessions. 
      More than half of the participants agreed that virtual laboratory sessions 
      consumed less time than on-campus sessions. Participants reported that they 
      cannot remember the instruction given during virtual teaching compared to 
      on-campus teaching. Differences in students' experiences were detected by gender, 
      major, and year of study. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to 
      change the future of healthcare education, and preparation for future crises is 
      paramount. Effort made, time spent, ability to remember, and preference for 
      virtual education should be considered in terms of gender, major of study, and 
      year. These differences should also be reflected in the planning of virtual 
      sessions for effective implementation.
CI  - (c) 2023 Al Bashir et al.
FAU - Al Bashir, Samir
AU  - Al Bashir S
AD  - Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University 
      of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
FAU - Al-Azzam, Nosayba
AU  - Al-Azzam N
AD  - Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University 
      of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
FAU - Elsalem, Lina
AU  - Elsalem L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3814-4865
AD  - Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and 
      Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
FAU - Al Smerat, Aya
AU  - Al Smerat A
AD  - Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University 
      of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
FAU - Haddad, Husam K
AU  - Haddad HK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1252-6440
AD  - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Health, Amman, 
      Jordan.
FAU - Alsulaiman, Jomana
AU  - Alsulaiman J
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Medical School of Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
FAU - Kheirallah, Khalid A
AU  - Kheirallah KA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4504-4472
AD  - Department of Public Health, Community Medicine and Family Medicine, Faculty of 
      Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
FAU - Alzoubi, Karem H
AU  - Alzoubi KH
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2808-5099
AD  - Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics, College of Pharmacy, 
      University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
AD  - Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of 
      Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230925
PL  - New Zealand
TA  - Adv Med Educ Pract
JT  - Advances in medical education and practice
JID - 101562700
PMC - PMC10542108
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - Jordan
OT  - laboratory sessions
OT  - medical students
OT  - on-campus sessions
OT  - virtual environment
COIS- The authors declare no conflicts of interest in this work.
EDAT- 2023/10/04 06:43
MHDA- 2023/10/04 06:44
PMCR- 2023/09/25
CRDT- 2023/10/04 03:56
PHST- 2023/06/09 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/09/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/10/04 06:44 [medline]
PHST- 2023/10/04 06:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/10/04 03:56 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/09/25 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 425144 [pii]
AID - 10.2147/AMEP.S425144 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Adv Med Educ Pract. 2023 Sep 25;14:1045-1054. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S425144. 
      eCollection 2023.