Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Learning Counseling Practice

The School of Medicine offers study counseling. In particular, the School of Medicine has many required courses, and it is important to respond to students with learning difficulties. It is necessary to discuss a new ap-proach to learning counseling for such students, consid-ering the prevention of COVID-19 infection, but online learning counseling has not been discussed so far. In the future, flexible selection and response based on an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of online learning counseling will be required. To over-come this challenge, this paper examines the practice of online learning counseling at the University's School of Medicine in the Corona Disaster. The practice could be characterized by seven advantages [behavioral under-standing, physical condition consideration, continuity, confidentiality, sharing, immediacy, and convenience] and two challenges [grasping reactions and interrup-tions]. Subsequently, it was presented new possibilities for online learning counseling by examining the content related to learning.