Objective: Online and blended learning methods have experienced rapid growth in higher education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study aimed to compare students' academic performance between online and blended Clinical Skill Laboratories (CSL) learning in undergraduate medical students.
Methods: A total of 101 undergraduate medical students at Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University, Malang, Indonesia, were enrolled (50 students from the academic year 2020 [group 1: online CSL]; 51 students from the academic year 2020 [group 2: blended CSL]).
Although previously large-scale social restrictions were implemented by the Indonesian government, the total number of coronavirus cases is overcome China in the global ranking per July 18th, 2020, implying a higher infection rate among Indonesian residents. The surge of new coronavirus cases started since the loosening of large-scale social restrictions, thereby implicating that public gathering (including religious gathering) evidently increases transmission [1]. It has been reported that Indonesia's coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) mortality rate is the second-highest among Southeast Asian Nations, which may be associated with several health determinants, including biochemical factors and health comorbidity [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7].
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