Satisfaction survey on infectious diseases online teaching for medical interns
Objective To investigate the satisfaction degree among medical interns with the effect of infectious diseases online teaching.Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted among 172 interns from a 5-year clinical medicine program who were doing internship with infectious diseases in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University in the spring and fall semesters of 2022.The survey aimed to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of online teaching for medical interns com-pared with traditional offline teaching.Results In terms of the advantages,online internship online teaching saved commuting time among 95.4%(164/172)of the students,enhanced self-management ability among 41.9%(72/172)of the students,en-riched teaching elements among 71.5%(123/172),promoted reviewing and consolidation of clinical knowledge among 38.4%(66/172)of the students.As regarding the disadvantages,online internship decreased clinical situational experience among 83.7%(144/172)students,reduced teaching-student interactions among 76.2%(131/172)of the students,decreased learn-ing efficiency among 51.7%(89/172)of the students and lowered quality of learning among 59.3%(102/172)of the students due to frequent network inefficiency.For prospection,37.8%(65/172)of the students expressed their wish to resume the tradi-tional offline teaching model continue and 57.6%(99/172)of them suggested that the combination of online and offline teaching mode should be adopt.Conclusion The inevitability and possibility of online internship of infectious diseases are gradually in-creasing.Compared with offline internships in infectious disease,students welcome a hybrid model of internships that combines online and offline models.