American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

A SURVEY AND FEEDBACK ANALYSIS ON UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS TEACHING METHODS

Prabal Joshi1, Lava Kumar Somu2, Somasundaram G3 and K Jaiganesh4

joshiprabal@gmail.com

Medical education, Students, Physiology, Teaching

Medical education in India due to increase in student strength and decreasing teacher student ratio, regular modification of goals and strategic targets has to be set at regular academic intervals. By the end of each academic year the only measurement on achieved goals, available to instructors is batch percentage. The students view and feedback on teaching methods will greatly improve to modify goals and targets of teaching and influence students centered learning rather curriculum completion targets. The present study is aimed to collect a questionnaire based survey on Ist M.B.B.S Students in department of Physiology at the end of academic year 2011-12. The questionnaire was filled by 96 students voluntarily out of 150 during one of the practical sessions at Physiology Lab. The results were the majority of students favored group discussion 70% versus didactic lectures.50% student’s favored didactic lectures with multimedia, pretest followed by post test. To conclude new teaching methods, research with feedback and implementation may enhance the learning process.The study was carried out to assess the perception of preventive oral care in children among expecting mothers in Jodhpur city. Women who already had one or more children were selected and questionnaire based survey was done. Information obtained included sociodemographic information and participant’s perception of child dental care. Data collection spanned a period of four weeks. Three hundred participants were selected for this study. Toothache turned out to be the most common reason for a child’s first visit to the dentist. The perceptions of dental visits, cleaning of teeth and commencement of unassisted tooth brushing in children was found to be poor.