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A comparative study of online learning in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic versus conventional learning

Safaa M. Hanafy, Mohammad I. Jumaa and Mostafa A. Arafa
Saudi Medical Journal March 2021, 42 (3) 324-331; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.3.20200741
Safaa M. Hanafy
From the Department of Anatomy (Hanafy, Jumaa), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University; from the Cancer Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine (Arafa), King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Anatomy (Jumaa), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Asuit, Egypt.
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Mohammad I. Jumaa
From the Department of Anatomy (Hanafy, Jumaa), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University; from the Cancer Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine (Arafa), King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Anatomy (Jumaa), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Asuit, Egypt.
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From the Department of Anatomy (Hanafy, Jumaa), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University; from the Cancer Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine (Arafa), King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Anatomy (Jumaa), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Asuit, Egypt.
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vol. 42 no. 3 324-331
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.3.20200741
PubMed 
33632912

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 19, 2020
  • Accepted February 9, 2021
  • Published online February 24, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Safaa M. Hanafy, MD⇑,
  2. Mohammad I. Jumaa, MD and
  3. Mostafa A. Arafa, MD
  1. From the Department of Anatomy (Hanafy, Jumaa), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University; from the Cancer Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine (Arafa), King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Anatomy (Jumaa), Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Asuit, Egypt.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Safaa M. Hanafy, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: aabdelaziz{at}imamu.edu.sa ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4590-839X
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