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Therefore, the opinion of students with their first contact to a fully virtual education will be helpful to modify e-teaching to better suit the students’ needs. Method: Four hundred seven medical students, in China, were recruited via social media and were asked to complete structured questionnaires, regarding technical and content aspects of their e-courses. Findings: Most issues reported were of technical nature, especially for students attending the school distantly and network instability/unavailability was frequently (52.48%) . Moreover, the audio was less helpful than texts/images and the senior students were less satisfied with the technical (0.005) and content (p=0.001) aspects. They also were more critical of their teachers’performance (p=0.042) . Clinical cases and scenarios also received the lowest score. Implications for research and practice: Overall students did not feel confident with the e-learning, comfortable implementing it to patients and were reluctant to embrace it. Both technical difficulties and understanding issues impeded international students from embracing e-learning medical teaching, in China and efforts need to be made to acclimatise them to this new reality.  \nKeywords: electronic learning; Distance Electronic Learning; e-courses; virtual medical teaching; medical students; International students.  \nIntroduction  \nDuring the past years, the number of international students have constantly been increasing and student mobility is going to be the main trend for the years to come. The most obvious reasons are the globalisation of the economy, which allows unhindered travelling, and the increase of the internet, which shows opportunities to youngsters away from their own country. The growing attention given to international students is reflected in the interest of international organisations, such as OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), and IIE (Institute of International Education) that have started data collection and provide statistics on the international student mobility (ISM) (OECD, 2020; UNESCO UIS, 2020) . Additionally, many national organisations have started monitoring the inward and outward movement of their student population (Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2019) . On the other hand, international merit rankings for universities, nowadays, include the number of international recruitments as an important indicator of their quality (Sheeja et al., 2018) .  \nMany countries seek to attract the best and the brightest students on a global scale, either by waving their fees as a scholarship or by providing work permits at the end of their studies. Other countries encourage student mobility within their jurisdiction, as part of their unification process, such as the European Union with the ERASMUS programme (Restaino et al., 2020) . The target is to attract the best and nurture them in the national culture, in order to integrate them into the regional workforce; finally; learning the local language is the first step for this integration. China is one of those countries that seek to attract international talents, within an ongoing active recruitment programme. In 1992, China had only 14,000 international students, while by 2017, it was the third ISM country, just behind t","cbCaibKQTvx9EKNh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibKQTvx9EKNh","pdf",427037,11,"English","# Introduction\n## Background: growth and mobility of international students\n## COVID-19 and the shift to e-learning\n## Rationale for the study","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the study?\",\"answer\":\"To assess how international medical students in China perceive e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and to use their feedback to better adapt e-teaching to students’ needs.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the study conducted?\",\"answer\":\"The study used structured questionnaires completed by 407 medical students in China, recruited via social media, focusing on technical and content aspects of their e-courses.\"},{\"question\":\"What were the main findings about students’ perceptions?\",\"answer\":\"Most issues were technical, especially for distantly attending students, with network instability/unavailability reported frequently; audio support was less helpful than text/images, and clinical cases/scenarios received the lowest scores.\"}]","HOW INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN CHINESE MEDICAL SCHOOLS PERCEIVE DISTANT LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC | PDF",1792066451,28]