Table 2.

Teachers’ comment analysis and the representative quotes (n = 51).

Categories	Subcategories	Comments n (%)	Representative quotations
Attitudes on online teaching	Positive	6 (12%)	●“HE possesses certain advantages in teaching online.”
			●“Combining online education and face-to-face teaching can lead to better learning outcomes.”
	Neutral	4 (8%)	●“Online teaching is not recommended except in very special circumstances.”
			●“The consistency and integrity of knowledge framework was difficultly delivered via online courses.”
Strong desire to share premium online resources among medical schools	Curriculum standards	3 (6%)	●“CSAS should set up the national standards for HE online courses and develop a concise HE course online.”
			●“Build one normalized platform of online teaching for all the medical schools.”
	Online teaching resources	16 (31%)	●“Share typical microstructural images/pictures among medical schools nationwide.”
			●“Develop better online resources for practical sessions by combining Aperio with Moodle.”
Suggestions and problems of online teaching	For teachers themselves	4 (8%)	●“Teachers' digital literacy should be strengthened under online teaching circumstances.”
			●“Think out new methods to facilitate online teaching.”
	Online teaching strategies	8 (16%)	●“Increase the teacher-students interaction under online teaching circumstances.”
			●“Increase the surveillance and monitor in students' regular study.”
	Problems	3 (6%)	●“Suggest way to share the methods on online assessing the student's academic performance.”
			●“How to implement close-book testing in online?”
An appeal for the improvement of online teaching environments		5 (10%)	●“A reliable internet connection is a founding premise of online teaching!”
			●“A success in online teaching needs the support from stable network operations.”
Others		2 (4%)	●“Universities should set up an online teaching evaluation system to avoid overloading.”