Curriculum and Specialty Construction of Biotechnology Education at Medical Colleges and Universities

Objective: To track the trends and patterns of psychoactive substance abuse among medical students. Study Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire based study. Place and Duration of Study: Medical Colleges and Universities of Lahore, from Aug to Sep 2019. Methodology: Total 200 medical students from Medical Colleges and Universities were included. The data wereanalyzed and computed using SPSS-21. Frequencies and percentages related to all the factors were computed. Results: Among study participants, 96 (48%) of males and 104 (52%) of females with 154 (77%) of these students belong to 21-25 years of age group. The observed prevalence of substance abuse among students was 42 (21%). Joy seeking and a friend’s offer was the initiation of psychoactive substance use among these students. Tobacco was the most highly consumed substance among students, followed by marijuana. Besides, the results also revealed that students also consumed cocaine and methamphetamine. Among 21% abusers, 4 (9%) and 5 (11%) of the students experienced side effects and withdrawal symptoms respectively. Conclusion: The increasing consumption of tobacco and indulgence in psychoactive drugs are concerning issues because of uncontrolled consumption can cause serious brain damage. Academic burden and stress are the mediators of drug abuse among students. Therefore, stress management training and workshops should be conducted in institutes.

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A Study on the Correlation between Self-Identity and Career Growth of Nurses with Standardized Training from Medical Colleges and Universities

2020 International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society (EMCS2020) ◽

10.38007/proceedings.0001763 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Colleges And Universities ◽

Self Identity ◽

Career Growth ◽

Medical Colleges

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Effects of Virtual Reality training on medical students’ learning motivation and competency

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences ◽

10.12669/pjms.35.3.44 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mian Usman Sattar ◽

Sellappan Palaniappan ◽

Asiah Lokman ◽

Atif Hassan ◽

Nauman Shah ◽

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Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Medical Students ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Vital Role ◽

Learning Motivation ◽

Virtual Reality Training ◽

Mean Values ◽

Motivation And Learning ◽

Medical Colleges

Objectives: To determine the need of contemporary immersive approaches (Virtual Reality) in teaching and training at medical sector. The main objective of this study was to explore the effects of text, video and immersive technologies learning methodologies for participants’ learning in public and private medical colleges and universities of Pakistan. Methods: In this quantitative research 87 medical students of 4th year from three public and five private medical colleges and universities participated. A laparoscopy operation was selected in consultation with senior medical consultants for this experiment. The experimental material was arranged in virtual reality, video and text based learning. At completion of each of which, participants completed a questionnaire about learning motivation and learning competency through the different mediums. Results: Statistical t-test was selected for the analysis of this study. By comparing the mean values of virtual reality, video, and text based learning methodologies in medical academics; result of virtual reality is at top of others. All performed model are statistically significant (P=0.000) and results can be applied at all population. Conclusion: Through this research, we contribute to medical students learning methodologies. In medical studies, both theoretical and practical expertise has a vital role, while repetition of hands-on practice can improve young doctors’ professional competency. Virtual reality was found best for medical students in both learning motivation and learning competency. Medical students and educationist may select virtual reality as new learning methodology for curriculum learning. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.44 How to cite this:Sattar MU, Palaniappan S, Lokman A, Hassan A, Shah N, Riaz Z. Effects of Virtual Reality training on medical students’ learning motivation and competency. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(3):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.44 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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