Changes in academic performance in the online, integrated system-based curriculum implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic in a medical school in Korea

This study examined how students’ academic performance changed after undergoing a transition to online learning during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, based on the test results of 16 integrated courses conducted in 3 semesters at Hanyang This study was conducted at Hanyang University College of Medicine (HYUCM), a private medical school in Seoul, South Korea. The average number of students per year is about 100. In HYUCM, the transition to online teaching was first implemented after COVID-19. Almost all face-to-face classroom lectures were replaced by online recorded videos, while fewer than 5% of classes were conducted as live online lectures. The major examinations’ raw scores were collected for each student. Because the total score was different for each examination, percent-correct scores were used in subsequent analyses. For courses that conducted more than 1 major examination, student achievement was calculated as an average of the percent-correct scores obtained from the examinations.