The views of interns and medical assistants regarding holding morning reports in both conventional and virtual forms during the Covid-19 pandemic at Babol University of Medical Sciences

The crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected education in universities.Therefore,it seems necessary to create a new and practical view in the education process.One of the most important teaching methods in medical sciences is the morning report.The purpose of this study is to compare the morning report conventional & virtual forms, from the viewpoint interns and medical assistants during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 124 medical students of  Babol Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital(1400-1401).The data was collected using a researcher-made and extracted questionnaire based on the manual of clinical education standards of the relevant ministry in three dimensions of educational structure, educational content, and empowerment enhancement. Descriptive statistics and t-test,Spearman's correlation,Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests were used to analyze the data.

From the students' viewpoint, the conventional course was significantly more favorable than the virtual in all three dimensions. Conventional training compared to virtual has had the biggest difference in terms of the educational structure. The quality of the virtual course was evaluated in terms of four indicators, and results showed that studied groups agreed on the lack of desirable quality of the virtual course.

The results showed that holding the morning report by face-to-face method was more favorable than the virtual method in all three dimensions investigated. Therefore, to deal with educational challenges in times of crisis, by explaining a written and planned program including virtual courses, any educational vacuum can be avoided.