Abstract :
The COVID 19 has posed many challenges to the health care educators. The outbreak made health educators to introduce and integrate information technology into the medical teaching. In the endeavour to create a virtual clinical learning environment, for the subject, the Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, ELMCH structured an online clinical training module. The study was undertaken to implement and assess the effectiveness of the module. The module was divided into parts covering various aspects of the clinical rotation. After completion of the clinical posting all students, faculty and residents were asked to fill a pre-validated questionnaire on google form to assess the effectiveness and their perceptions for online clinical teaching module. Most of the students felt that the session met their learning needs (4.4±.87) and interactiveness was good(4.5±.72). Most of the students also felt that the session were convenient (4.4±.84) and helped them in gaining clinical skills (4.3±.87). The most common difficulty in e-learning was technical problems including unstable internet connectivity resulting in poor voice and video quality.
Keyword :
Online clinical teaching, COVID- 19, Medical Education, Blended teaching.