Perception of Students Toward Traditional Teaching and Online Teaching Methods During 2nd Year MBBS

Education has been compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the crisis, online teaching is provided as an ideal teaching and learning environment by educationists as an adjunct to traditional teaching. E-learning has become beneficial in academic and epidemiological aspects. Initially, distance education courses alone used E-learning methods, but now it has developed to be part of any formal education. To evaluate whether online methods are convenient for students compared to traditional methods. This descriptive study period was three months with a sample size of 183 MBBS students. The questionnaire (variables) was classified into General, Academics, and Evaluation which was mailed to students as Google Form with feedback form. The Likert Scale was used to evaluate the questionnaire. A comparison was made between traditional and online teaching. Based on the data obtained, calculations were done using the Likert Scale. Among the total study participants, the majority said that the traditional teaching method was interesting, useful and more effective compared to online teaching. This study concluded that traditional teaching has more advantages such as orientation knowledge, learning skills, problem-solving, level of concentration, questioning, reflections, and feedback sessions related to clinical and practical knowledge compared to online teaching.