Perception of medical students on effectiveness on use of e-teaching during global lockdown period of covid -19 pandemic

Background: During the Covid -19 Pandemic the educational institute were forced to close for long time which lead to starting of e teaching classes to cover the curriculum of the students.
Aims and Objectives: The present study was carried out to find out the perception of medical students about the effectiveness, benefits and challenges of e teaching.
Material and Method: A validated structured questionnaire was given to 350 medical students and the data was collected and analyzed.
Result: Out of 350, 58.4% students have used e teaching resource previously while 64 % students encountered difficulties while implementing newer e-learning module.76.6% respondents are interested in guidance on e learning.78.8% students have used Whatsapp as a common learning forms to communicate with their faculties.75.6% students found this communication is useful and about 56% students agree that e-teaching is beneficial for learning.40.7% students think that implementing e-teaching would improve their performance.41 % respondents agreed to its cost effectivity. 23.2 % students think that e-teaching will help in better understanding of the concept than traditional teaching methods .50% respondents agree that E-teaching would help to learn concept on your own at their own pace while 86.9% respondents find easy availability of resource to access e-teaching mediums .58.1% students agreed that e teaching has advantages while 47.98 % students agree that it is disadvantages for them.47.2 % students think that E-teaching will make them to skip traditional classess.54.7% students would like to use zoom application while 30.2% are using Google classroom . 63.3% students wish to continue to be taught their conceptual and self explanatory portion of curriculum by virtual learning only. Students gave suggestions of conducting exams which is time bound and compulsory. Also they suggest for regular online assignments and video sharing and conferencing of practical and clinical skills. They need more interactive online sessions to be conducted by faculties.
Conclusion: e teaching may be having practical based limitations but still it is proving to be useful tool for knowledge based understanding. During the global lockdown period of Covid Pandemic, the online teaching platforms are proving to be guiding sources to the medical students.