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Gazibara T, Marusic V, Maric G, et al. Introducing E-learning in Epidemiology Course for Undergraduate Medical Students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: A Pilot Study. J Med Syst. 2015;39(10):121doi: 10.1007/s10916-015-0302-7.
Gazibara, T., Marusic, V., Maric, G., Zaric, M., Vujcic, I., Kisic-Tepavcevic, D., Maksimovic, J., Maksimovic, N., Denic, L. M., Grujicic, S. S., Pekmezovic, T., & Grgurevic, A. (2015). Introducing E-learning in Epidemiology Course for Undergraduate Medical Students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: A Pilot Study. Journal of medical systems, 39(10), 121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0302-7
Gazibara, Tatjana, et al. "Introducing E-learning in Epidemiology Course for Undergraduate Medical Students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: A Pilot Study." Journal of medical systems vol. 39,10 (2015): 121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0302-7
Gazibara T, Marusic V, Maric G, Zaric M, Vujcic I, Kisic-Tepavcevic D, Maksimovic J, Maksimovic N, Denic LM, Grujicic SS, Pekmezovic T, Grgurevic A. Introducing E-learning in Epidemiology Course for Undergraduate Medical Students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: A Pilot Study. J Med Syst. 2015 Oct;39(10):121. doi: 10.1007/s10916-015-0302-7. Epub 2015 Aug 20. PMID: 26289627; PMCID: PMC7087764.
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J Med Syst. 2015 Oct;39(10):121. doi: 10.1007/s10916-015-0302-7. Epub 2015 Aug 20.

Introducing E-learning in Epidemiology Course for Undergraduate Medical Students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: A Pilot Study.

Journal of medical systems

Tatjana Gazibara, Vuk Marusic, Gorica Maric, Milica Zaric, Isidora Vujcic, Darija Kisic-Tepavcevic, Jadranka Maksimovic, Nataša Maksimovic, Ljiljana Markovic Denic, Sandra Sipetic Grujicic, Tatjana Pekmezovic, Anita Grgurevic

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  1. Institute of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Visegradska 26A, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia.

PMID: 26289627 PMCID: PMC7087764 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-015-0302-7

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine whether e-learning as a new teaching concept was acceptable for second-year undergraduates and to compare attitudes and exam results of students who followed electronic compared with classroom seminars. The electronic seminars (e-seminars) were developed several months prior to start of the epidemiology course for second-year students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. The students who applied for e-seminars accessed their content during summer semester (February-May) 2014. E-seminars were set according to the existing topics in practical workbook and designed using Moodle, a free, open-source, personal home page web application for producing modular internet-based courses. To evaluate the motives for enrollment and satisfaction with seminars, two surveys (pre- and post-course) were administered. Students' exam grades were registered over 4 exam sessions (June-October 2014) and compared according to seminar program. Out of 516 students in the second year, 60 (11.6 %) applied for e-seminars (mean age 21 years). Students considered the reason "It's easier to do assignments from home" as the strongest motive to participate. When compared to classroom seminars, students in e-seminars had significantly more fun (p = 0.003), thought that e-seminars were better mode to learn epidemiology (p = 0.030) and would recommend them to other colleagues (p = 0.001). There was no significant difference in average grade received at the oral exam in epidemiology (t = 0.071, p = 0.944). E-seminars in undergraduate epidemiology course add a novel, easy-to-follow and amusing mode of learning. Based on this pilot study, e-seminars in epidemiology will be available for next generations of students, while further improvement of e-seminars could include expansion of seminar syllabus and development of discussion fora.

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