A Response to "The Satisfaction Level of Undergraduate Medical and Nursing Students Regarding Distant Preclinical and Clinical Teaching Amidst COVID-19 Across India" [Response to Letter]

Siddhartha Dutta, Sneha Ambwani, Hina Lal, Kishna Ram, Govind Mishra, Tarun Kumar, Shoban Babu Varthya Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, IndiaCorrespondence: Tarun KumarDepartment of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Room No. C-280, Second Floor, Medical College Building, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 352005, IndiaTel +918447875716Email tarunkmr759@gmail.comWe would like to thank the authors for showing interest in our article and appreciatethe helpful comments and suggestions from Neev Trehan, Joel Conway, andPraneeth Vedagiri from the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London,London, UK for our article titled "The Satisfaction Level of UndergraduateMedical and Nursing Students Regarding Distant Preclinical and ClinicalTeaching Amidst COVID-19 Across India". 1Concerning to the first query, we deeply agree with the fact that "satisfaction" isa broad concept and has varied domains. With regard to describing a particular typeof teaching style, we would like to notify that the present study analyzed the onlineteaching of the medical and nursing students owing to the abrupt change in thepattern of teaching from physical lectures and practical exercises to complete onlinemode due to lockdown and isolation recommendations from the administration andgovernment. The current study was not a single-center study but analyzed theonline teaching in various institutions across India which included a diverse methodof teaching like lectures, practical exercises, assignments that were taught throughPPTs or other possible modes available to them. Focusing on a single mode ofteaching would have been more prudent but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, theentire medical and nursing curriculum was shifted to online mode for the first timefor which they were not prepared. Hence, we planned to analyze the impact onteaching entirely. This is in response to the Letter to the Editor View the original paper by Dutta and colleagues