Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Open Access

Attitude of Emergency Medicine Residents Toward Online Learning During COVID-19 Period: A CrossSectional Study

Webinar on Emergency Medicine and Current Research

September 17, 2024 | London, UK

Khalid Alwakeel

Emergency Medicine Senior register, PSMMC Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Intensive and Critical Care

Abstract:

Background: In March 2020, COVID-19 was announced by the Center for Disease Control as a pandemic. This led to a rise of regulations including limited social gatherings. Since then, training programs, including the emergency medicine training program, changed their educational activity from physical attendance to online-learning. In this study, we aimed to assess emergency medicine residentsâ?? attitudes as well as difficulties and obstacles faced during this transition. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study which included all emergency medicine residents under training in the academic year 2020-2021 in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We administered a self-reported online questionnaire to residents that assessed their preferences as well as obstacles faced during online-learning experiences during COVID-19 epidemic. Results: Of all sampled residents, 63% took part in the study. The mean age was 27±2. The majority of respondents were of senior level (52.4%). Only 12.6% reported poor attitude towards onlineeducation. Half of the participants reported that they learned more from in-class activity. Nearly 71% were able to get their questions answered during the on-line activities. Approximately, 75% reported no technical difficulties. The two most reported difficulties were poor connection and poor audio (13.6%, 17.6% respectively). Obstacles reported were Limited interaction with colleagues (63.1%) and absence of hands-on training (43.7%). Almost half of the participants believed that online-activity will still play an important role in their education once the pandemic is over. Conclusion: Overall, emergency medicine residents had a general positive attitude towards onlinelearning. Obstacles faced can be easily amended. Furthermore, many residents still see online-learning playing an important role in their education even after the pandemic ended.

Biography :

Khalid Alwakeelw working in Emergency Medicine Senior register, PSMMC Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.