Table 2.
Perspective of respondents on the impact of the pandemic on the classroom, research, and clinical placement activities
| Statements | Responses n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly agree | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | Strongly disagree | |
| The outbreak has caused significant changes to the academic calendar (N=291) | 185 (63.6%) | 85 (29.2%) | 18 (6.2%) | 1 (0.3%) | 2 (0.7%) |
| The outbreak has affected attendance to academic sessions (N=285) | 113 (39.6%) | 120 (42.1%) | 36 (12.6%) | 13 (4.6%) | 3 (1.1%) |
| The outbreak has affected the placement of students for clinical training (N=263) | 130 (49.4%) | 107 (40.7%) | 23 (8.7%) | 3 (1.1%) | 0 |
| Health facilities were not willing to accept students during the pandemic (N=267) | 33 (12.4%) | 103 (38.6%) | 79 (29.6%) | 37 (13.9%) | 15 (5.6%) |
| *The pandemic has affected general research activities and output (N=85) | 69 (81.2%) | 16 (18.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ⁎⁎My institution has adopted remote working options for staff (N=14) | 14 (100%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yes | Somewhat | No | |||
| Were you conversant with the use of the online/virtual platform? (N=232) | 74 (31.9%) | 78 (33.6%) | 80 (34.5%) | ||
| Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Very poor | |
| In general, what was your experience with online/virtual learning? (N=232) | 11 (4.7%) | 73 (31.5%) | 96 (41.4%) | 43(18.5%) | 12 (5.1%) |
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Educators and year 4 students only
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Educators only