Assessing the e-learning readiness of medical students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

The aim of this study was to evaluate the e-learning readiness of medical students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences.

The research is of applied type and survey-analytical method. The statistical population included 210 professional doctoral students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences who answered the questionnaires by census sampling method of 96 people. The data collection tool was a questionnaire and its reliability was confirmed according to Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.839). Descriptive statistics, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and "Student's" and "Friedman" tests were used to analyze the data.

The average access to technology is equal to (3.47), skills and continuous communication is equal to (2.95), motivation is equal to (2.40), the ability to learn through media is equal to (67.67). 2), Internet group conversations are equal to (2.72) and important issues for success in e-learning is equal to (2.89). The significance level of Friedman test is less than 0.05. In the first place, the rate of "skills and continuous communication" (with an average rank of 4.02) and the rate of "motivation" (with an average rank of 1.76) is in the sixth place.

Professional doctoral students in medicine have a low level of readiness for e-learning, so given the current situation of Covid 19 virus, the need to use this method and provide the possibility of studying electronically in this university is obvious.