FIRST RESULTS OF ONLINE TRAINING BY PHAN CHAU UNIVERSITY MEDICINE

FIRST RESULTS OF ONLINE TRAINING BY PHAN CHAU UNIVERSITY MEDICINE

Current context

Facing increasingly complex developments of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, the Ministry of Education and Training has encouraged schools to organize online teaching to limit focus and not interrupt their knowledge. When students have to stay at home for a long time, online teaching and learning has become an inevitable trend in the context of the technology age 4.0.Many domestic universities as well as in the world have and is moving from traditional to online teaching during this pandemic outbreak. Phan Chau Trinh University is no exception.

Phan Chau Trinh University offers many disciplines, but pays a lot of attention to the health and hospital administration, and this training program is very heavy in both theory and practice at the hospital. In addition to investing in infrastructure and technology, both qualitative and quantitative faculty resources to meet PCTU's specialized curriculum like medicine are very important. Many on-site lecturers, but also many excellent and excellent lecturers at major medical universities, hospitals in the country, or abroad such as the United States, France, Italy, Sweden, and Korea were invited. teaching as well as scientific research from the beginning. When the epidemic broke out and broke out in Wuhan - China in December, 2019, the school board predicted a difficulty in teaching the traditional or called onsite teaching to students if the disease spread. spread fast. So how must the study program be continuous, uninterrupted, how to seamlessly flow medical knowledge from teachers to students because it will lose medical emotions and lose time. In learning, is the subsequent rebuilding not easy or does it take a while? The Board of Directors focused on discussing the policy of supplementing online infraconstruction in medicine and the investment project that has been carefully researched and referenced since early January 2020, and put into application in early February. .2020 and the School encourage students to stay in school to learn through this online tool.

Difficulties and challenges in implementing online teaching

Initially, the school used the available information technology and telecommunications infrastructure to immediately deploy online teaching and learning. Many difficulties have been revealed as most lecturers use traditional teaching methods, teachers come to class and interact directly with students, so when deploying online teaching, teachers do not have access to technology, not confidently sitting in front of computer screens and technology devices, afraid of not interacting with students ... Students are skeptical about the speed of the Internet connection, images and sounds cannot transmit all the content. teaching instructors.

Seeing the above obstacle factors, a key solution to overcome the obstacles for teachers and students and improve the quality of online teaching is to continue to invest in upgrading in information technology and communication for this project.

Applying information and communication technology, in addition to investing in 150 MB high-speed internet connection, the school also invests in two bridges for teaching and learning. The lecturer bridge is located in Ho Chi Minh City, with modern technology equipment such as: American studio / online equipment including Polycom Trio 8500-12X MSR hardware (Camera, mic, speaker, Trio Visual +); 01 Interactive screen: BENQ RM5502K; 02 Sony 43in TV screens; 01 Trio Visual + set; 01 HP laptop. The student bridge head located at the Medical School of Phan Chau Trinh University also has modern hardware and software equipment synchronous with the lecturers' bridgehead and the classrooms are acoustically soundproof. Both bridgeheads have teaching assistants (TA), bridge assistants Teachers possessing advantages in information technology and medical background, Student bridgeheads are assistant teachers who know how to apply information technology. and communication to help students interact easily with teachers and assist teachers in discussions and presentations. During the upgrade rollout for this Online teaching project, the school is planning to teach and learn anywhere for faculty and students, teachers anywhere and students learn at home, at sign dormitory and do not need to focus at school.

In order for students to interact well with teachers, the school implements a Learning Management System (LMS): a software system running on CiscoWeb platform allowing organization, management and deployment. training activities; Help the School monitor and manage student learning; create virtual teaching and learning environments; help teachers communicate with learners in assigning exercises, giving assistance and answers; help students keep track of their learning progress, participate in online learning content, connect with faculty and other students to exchange lessons, including writing and marking assignments for students. Online lectures are stored by the University on LMS so that students can review them when needed

Initial results were obtained at the Faculty of Medicine, Phan Chau Trinh University

Right from the beginning of the operation, there were many comments and suggestions for the school to complete the tools as well as the deployment method for online teaching:

The opinion of the lecturer: although the first session of online teaching, students were serious, preparing their presentations well and fully, the way of operating the teaching tools of the lecturers was still confused, so it was required. IT is required to always support the teachers, the image quality of the student bridge is not clear, the sound has a lot of noise, teaching directly to students on the spot, the teacher can see the student and see Students, Thay will understand whether students understand the lesson or not, and where students are still faltering. Teaching online, the teacher does not observe each student clearly, through a number of interactive questions, he will know the students' understanding level, the most interesting point of lecturers with modern equipment, teachers from travel far to teach, very convenient for teachers to arrange work as well as teach.

The opinion of the students: LMS software helped students view study documents, presentation files, ... to help them prepare lessons and presentations before class, so they feel comfortable studying. The classrooms are quiet, have a high self-study spirit, and have autonomy in learning time. They also want the school to better improve the visual and sound so that the interaction between students and teachers is closer.

The school has absorbed the opinions of teachers and students and better improved teaching tools such as investing more recording equipment, improving sound by building sound absorption systems for classrooms ...

Survey results…

Currently, the school has been deploying online teaching for the bridgehead for 2 weeks and the student survey results are as follows:

- 100% of students survey about classrooms and equipment to meet online teaching requirements

- 100% agree with the Internet connection to remain stable

- 96% agree with the quality of images in lectures to meet the requirements of online classroom teaching

- 100% agree with the sound quality in classrooms

- 100% agree with appropriate and easy-to-understand teaching methods of lecturers.

- 96% agree with lecturers teaching via Online can attract eager students

- 92% agree with the online teaching model that fully satisfies knowledge so that students can self-study.

- 100% agree that the school will deploy online teaching for the next courses.

With the initial results recorded, we hope that the investment in teaching and learning medicine by online medicine of Phan Chau Trinh University can be feasible at least in the period when most traffic, direct relationship, direct interaction, direct communication in distance teaching and learning. Maybe in the near future, society will agree with this way of teaching and learning as more and more technology develops, making teachers and students, even though they are far apart, still have feelings of interaction not much different from the other. Traditional teaching, then it is as an indispensable familiar tool in medical teaching to contribute to building the quality of doctors who graduate from school is still as good as the desire of the society. Medicine Phan Chau Trinh University continues to pursue and follow this project, considering it as a research project on teaching methods in the health sciences of the university.

Medical University of Phan Chau Trinh