The Impact of COVID on Microbiology Examination Result with its Further analysis based on Student’s gender and Place of Residence

Abstract

Aims: To study the impact of COVID on Microbiology examination result, and analyze it further based on the gender and place of residence.
 Methods: Simple analysis conducted cross-sectionally based on the comparison of the result of final Microbiology exam result based on the student’s gender and place of residence. Data classified by the class of 2018 (Pre-COVID), 2019 (initial COVID) and 2020 (prolonged COVID).
 Results: There is a pattern of decreasing exam scores, both in theory and practicum, when compared to exam results before COVID (class of 2018), during the initial of the COVID pandemic (class of 2019) and 1 year after COVID became a pandemic but not yet fully controlled (class of 2020).
 Conclusion: COVID caused direct impact to medical education, in our context to Microbiology examination result.