One year of COVID-19 pandemic: a cross sectional study on teaching oral and maxillofacial surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The pandemic has challenged educational institutions to catalyze digitalization and rapidly develop online teaching formats. The aim of the study was to evaluate the teaching offered for oral and maxillofacial surgery at our university during the pandemic and to investigate the students' perceptions of the current situation.

Methods

A 38-item questionnaire with five sections (demographic information, lectures, internships, e-learning, and pandemic-related solutions/effects) was created online. Most questions were answered on a 10-point Likert scale, with 1 indicating "fully agree/positive" and 10 indicating "totally disagree/negative." The remaining questions were either answered with yes/no, percent value, or open-ended text responses. All 3rd-5th year dental stu

SUBMITTER: Bock A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8683806 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature