ABSTRACT

Title of the study:

Experiential Learning by Undergraduate Medical Students on “Short video preparation” during Coronavirus Lockdown Period

Background:

It is reported that as medical students progress through their courses, they demonstrate a decline in basic science knowledge that plays a crux role in their learning process. So, an initiative was taken targeting towards the higher level of Bloom’s taxonomy (create) by organizing short video preparation event on physiological concepts.

Objectives:

To evaluate the “short video preparation activity” in Physiology concepts from student perspectives.

Methods:

All 150 students of the Competency based medical education (CBME) batch were divided into 5 groups with one faculty as instructor. Students were required to develop e-content in the form of a video that wasposted in the Learning Management System. Feedback and experiences were collectedthrough a pre-designed Likert scale questionnaire, Kirkpatrick model 1.Open-ended questions were also administered.The quantitative data was analyzed using open Epi info version 7.0. The manual content analysis was done for the open-ended questions.

Results:

85% of the students perceived that they have understood the chosen physiological concept in a better way; 75% students perceived that this method of learning gave them an opportunity to explore the topic in detail and 79% of the students agreed to recommend this method of learning for thefuture batches. Other suggestions include: the time duration for preparation could be increased, collaborative or team presentations could be encouraged, uniform topic could be given.

Conclusions:

The study provided us an insight about the student’s experience on creating videos and helped us to develop a strategy to enhance teaching learning process.