ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Med.
Sec. Healthcare Professions Education
This article is part of the Research TopicEducation in Obstetrics and Gynecology: 2025View all 4 articles
Medical education in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: preferences of medical students regarding digital teaching
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Christoph Cirkel1
Nikolas Tauber1*Natalia Krawczyk2Jann Lennard Scharf1Achim Rody1Maggie Banys-Paluchowski1- 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Universitatsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Campus Lubeck, Lübeck, Germany
- 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Universitatsklinikum Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Background: The aim of this survey is to determine students' preferences of the University Lübeck in Germany regarding various supplementary digital learning opportunities in the field of Gynecology and Obstetrics in order to better address students' needs and to improve and modernize teaching. Methods: An online questionnaire was carried out from the Medical Education Team of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck among students during the gynecology rotation at the end of summer semester 2023. Results: A total of 117 students participated in this online questionnaire (32 male (28%) and 84 female (72%) students). Hybrid lectures (participation either online or in the lecture hall) were preferred by 111 students (96%), whereas only 2 students (1.7%) favored exclusively in-person attendance. Online learning opportunities were rated as highly or very highly valuable by 93 students (80%). Online learning tools were mainly used used for exam preparation (108 students (92%)), for targeted deepening of specific topics (82 students (70%)), to catch up on missed lectures (85 students (72%)) and to review or repeat a lecture content (83 students (71%)). Conclusion: Traditional teaching methods such as practical exercises and “bed-side teaching”/patient contact are still highly valued by medical students, which students wish to see expanded. Additional online learning opportunities such as on-demand lectures are increasingly important in medical education and are very appreciated by students. Findings indicate that lecturers may consider these needs of the new medical student generation.
Keywords: Medical Education, Covid pandemics, Digital teaching, micro-learning, podcast, questionnaire
Received: 15 Sep 2025; Accepted: 20 Nov 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Cirkel, Tauber, Krawczyk, Scharf, Rody and Banys-Paluchowski. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Nikolas Tauber, nikolas.tauber@uksh.de
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