DISTANCE LEARNING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE, DNIPROPETROVSK MEDICAL ACADEMY, MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF UKRAINE, THROUGH THE EYES OF SECOND-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS (ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF THE ANONYMOUS SURVEY)

Abstract

Information computer technologies have become an integral part of the educational process of the modern generation of students, including students of medical universities, in complex pandemic conditions, which led to the direction of this study, namely the analysis of the opinion of students of medical universities on the use of distance learning in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. That is why the purpose of our study was to analyze the results of an anonymous questionnaire survey of second year students of the Faculty of Dentistry of Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy, in order to meet their own expectations regarding the quality of training in a remote format in the COVID-19 quarantine during the study of the discipline “Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine”, which will assess the format of on-line teaching through the “students’ eyes”.  To achieve the above goal, an anonymous online research was conducted on 2 groups of foreign (Russian-speaking) second year students (n = 45 students) using the Google Form platform. Summarizing the results of the anonymous survey stated that there is a different level of assessment (in points from 1 to 10) such a component as the justification of own expectations regarding the quality of training in a remote format – the distribution of the average was 8 points (ME = 8 Q1; Q3 (7; 9,75 )), but the quality of the level of improvement to own practical skills – only 5.5 points (ME = 5.5 Q1; Q3 (5, 8)). A frequent suggestion to improve the quality of education, according to the second year students of the Faculty of Dentistry, is to increase opportunities for practicing skills and professional competencies. In the majority of second year students of the Faculty of Dentistry have an opinion on receiving positive experience of study in a distance format, considering it as an opportunity for self-development and independent deepening of the knowledgebase. The second year students of the Faculty of Dentistry, while studying the discipline “Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine”, consider that the distance form of education can only be an addition to the full-time part, not as a long independent unit of the educational process, so the specificity of the chosen profession is associated with the need to learn and improve practical skills and professional competencies.