Examination of Change in Perception Toward Virtual Medical Education After Covid-19 Pandemic in the U.S. Using Twitter Data.

• In Event: RTD- COVID Responses and Impacts (v)

Short Description

COVID-19 introduced a large percentage of the world’s students and teachers to virtual (or online) learning. The purpose of this study was to analyze current conversations about virtual medical education during the pandemic. Twitter data (tweets) associated with the virtual educational experience in the medical field was obtained. Two natural language analyses and sentiment analyses were adopted for the study. Across the selected topics, we found differences in conversations in medical education fields. Their needs in virtual medical education, and the reason why they do not favor virtual learning were identified, and the ways to break through the problems were also found. More findings and implications will be discussed in the presentation.

Authors

• Presenter: Hyunchang Moon, Texas Tech University

• Contributor: Seungman Kim, Texas Tech University

• Presenter: Jaehoon Lee, KSET

• Presenter: Jongpil Cheon, Texas Tech University