Effectiveness of e-Learning in Public Health Education: A Pilot Study

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Abstract—Medical schools educators are presently experimenting with innovative ways of using e-learning to supplement the existing teaching. E-learning can promote an active, deeper approach for learning that enhances student learning outcomes. However, little literature explores the application of e-learning into public health education. The aim is to assess the effectiveness of e-learning in public health. A descriptive study, with a total of 87 international students of the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) enrolled, was conducted at Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China. To evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning platform, correlations between students’ e-learning platform usage and the final examination marks were analyzed. The major contribution of this paper is E-learning platform usage had positive correlations with students’ final examination marks. E-learning is promising and worthwhile for further application in public health education