TY - JOUR AU - Nola, Iskra Alexandra AU - Dvorski, Matija AU - Majer, Marjeta PY - 2022/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Medical Students’ Perception of Organization and Informatization of Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic JF - Annals of Disaster Risk Sciences JA - Ann. Disaster Risk Sci. VL - 4 IS - 1-2 SE - DO - 10.51381/adrs.v4i1-2.208 UR - https://ojs.vvg.hr/index.php/adrs/article/view/208 SP - AB - <p>Background and aim: Outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had big impact on higher education system. To prevent spreading of the disease, <em>distance learning</em> was organised. The aim of this research was to assess medical students’ perception of quality of educational process during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>Respondents and methods: <em>Online</em> research was conducted during May 2021 on 142 students of fourth, fifth and sixth year of School of Medicine University of Zagreb. This research was conducted using <em>Questionnaire for Assessing Quality of Distance Learning in Biomedicine Studies</em>. It consists of 28 items which are rated using 7-point Likert scale and are distributed in six subscales. All statistical analyses were conducted using IBM<sup>®</sup> SPSS<sup>®</sup> Statistics for Windows (Version 25.0).</p><p>Results: Statistically significant difference was found in <em>Perception of Teachers’ Work</em> between fourth and sixth year (<em>p</em> = 0.012), as well as <em>Perception of Educational Environment and Personal Academic Achievements </em>between fourth and fifth, and fourth and sixth year of study (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.001). The lowest mean for all subscales was found in fourth year, except subscales <em>Perception of Personal Academic Activity</em> (3.51 ± 1.32) and <em>Perception of Equipment Quality </em>(6.22 ± 1.04). The highest mean was found in sixth year for subscales <em>Perception of Distance Learning Organization </em>(3.47 ± 1.04), <em>Perception of Cooperation </em>(4.39 ± 1.04) and <em>Perception of Teachers’ Work </em>(4.73 ± 0.96). For subscales <em>Perception of Educational Environment and Personal Academic Achievements</em> and <em>Perception of Equipment Quality</em>, the highest mean was found in the fifth year (5.42 ± 1.14 and 6.28 ± 1.01, respectively). Majority of students were satisfied with equipment quality and Internet connection they used, however most of them (<em>N</em> = 68, 47.9 %) thought that teachers were not qualified enough to use tools for <em>online</em> teaching.</p><p>Conclusion: The highest quality of educational process was perceived by sixth-year (64.9 % of the total score), and the lowest by fourth-year medical students (58.7 % of the total score). Teachers should continue with their education in order to maximize the use of digital technology in achieving educational outcomes, especially in biomedical area.</p> ER -