~ 4 ~ ISSN Print: 2394-7500 ISSN Online: 2394-5869 Impact Factor: 8.4 IJAR 2021; 7(5): 04-07 www.allresearchjournal.com Received: 05-03-2021 Accepted: 08-04-2021 Mutaher Jahan Begum Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Nafis Haider Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Waheed Ahmad Baig Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Khalid Eqbal Sufiya Unani Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Bara Chakia East Champaran Bihar, India Corresponding Author: Nafis Haider Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on quality of education Mutaher Jahan Begum, Nafis Haider, Waheed Ahmad Baig and Khalid Eqbal DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/allresearch.2021.v7.i5a.8534 Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic is a huge challenge to education systems. Social distancing to curb the Covid- 19 pandemic has caused suspension of classroom teaching in all educational institutions. Government permitted colleges and universities around the world to shut down their campuses indefinitely and move their educational activities onto online platforms. Medical students do not find online classes as effective as the traditional classroom teachings; it could be made more interactive and productive by introducing interactive and brainstorming sessions complementing the conventional face to face education. Owing to financial constraints, students are not able to meet the necessary requirements for effective online learning. The present study aimed to explore the effect of Covid-19 on the quality of education. Keywords: Covid-19; Coronavirus; Pandemic; Quality of Education; financial constraints 1. Introduction According to the World Health Organization (WHO), viral diseases continue to rise, and pose a significant public health problem [1] . The clinical continuum of COVID-19 varies from mild illness with non-specific signs and symptoms of acute respiratory disease to extreme respiratory pneumonia and septic shock, and it can transmit from animal to human in the form of touch, through the air, water, utensils, fomite and feco-oral route blood [2] . The pathogenesis and clinical characteristics of Humma-e-Wabai were described several years ago in the Unani System of Medicine close to the clinical manifestation associated with epidemic or pandemic situations [3] . The coronavirus pandemic has impacted medical education, and health care globally [4] . The disease can cause life-threatening conditions and it presents challenges for medical education, as instructors must deliver lectures safely, while ensuring the integrity and continuity of the medical education process [5] . The lockdown due to COVID-19 had serious implications on mental health, resulting in psychological problems including frustration, stress, depression and quality of education [6] . It is therefore important to assess the usability of online learning methods, and to determine their feasibility and adequacy for medical students [5] . Radu MC et al. (2020)., reported that some negative aspects were reported for Covid-19 impact such as; lack of an adequate infrastructure for some students, less effective teacher-student communication and interaction, impossibility of performing practical applications, lack of socialization, lack of learning motivation, less objective examination (e.g., possibility of cheating), possibility of physical and mental health degradation (e.g., too much time spent in front of screens, installation of a sedentary lifestyle) [7, 8] . Consequently, for the new academic year, effective, and efficient measures must be implemented by the management of the university to remove, as much as possible, these negative issues and to improve the performance of online educational process [7, 9, 10] . One another reported that It has been shown that medical students and qualified doctors are not adequately confident in their ability to assess and manage skin conditions, and many feel that their undergraduate dermatology teaching was not satisfactory [11] . 2. Methodology The impact of Covid-19 on education, and health care has been surveyed Internet sources such as Pubmed, Medline, Scopus, Science Direct, web of science Google Scholar etc. 13,14,15 The keywords used are Covid-19, Pandemic, Amraz-e-Wabai, Epidemic, Quality of education, Health Care etc [1, 3, 16, 17] . International Journal of Applied Research 2021; 7(5): 04-07