scholarly journals Students' Engagement during Collection of Attendance: An Experience of a Pilot Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e000097
Author(s):  
Himel Mondal ◽  
Shaikat Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Voice Disorder ◽  
Academic Activity ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
The One ◽  
Voice Stress ◽  
Medical Colleges

In many medical colleges in India, the annual intake for an undergraduate course is 250. Recording attendance of 250 students is a humongous task. It involves an average of 8.93 ± 1.06 minutes, which is approximately 15% of the total time of the one-hour lecture. During this time, students commonly sit idly while waiting for their roll number call. Interestingly, continuous calling of 250 roll numbers at a stretch is an additional voice stress to the teachers. With this background, we designed a program – students’ engagement during collection of attendance (SEdCA). A comprehension test about the lecture topic was conducted in five minutes, and the answer sheets were collected in the next three minutes. These answer sheets were then scanned (i.e., looked at all parts of answer sheets) for roll numbers and were recorded in the register. This method keeps the students engaged in an academic activity during the time of attendance recording. It also helps in reduction of voice stress to the teachers. This method of attendance collection may be adapted by institutions according to available logistics especially when their student’s strength is more than 250. Keywords: Attendance, Concentration, Medical students, University, Voice disorder.

scholarly journals A Pilot Study of Real-Time Experience Sampling Method to Evaluate Student Engagement in a Global Health Rotation

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Asima Ahmad ◽  
John Schneider ◽  
Ifeoma Nwadei ◽  
Michael Darcy ◽  
Rachel Farr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Structured Activities ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
The One

International experiences are increasingly popular among medical students, but few have been rigorously evaluated. We used ESM to characterize the experience of medical students participating in the one-month University of Chicago Geographic Medicine Scholars Program (GMSP) in Hyderabad, India. Participants wore watches programmed to randomly beep eight times daily, during the first and third weeks. When alerted, students reported their activity and rated their level of engagement and emotion in booklets. All 11 student participants responded to 59% of 816 alerts. 41% of beeps occurred during GMSP formal structured activities (i.e., lecture, clinic). Students reported structured activities to be more interesting (6.05 versus 4.14;P<0.001), more important to their future goals (6.48 versus 5.71;P<0.001), more challenging (3.75 versus 2.48;P<0.001), and more enjoyable (6.08 versus 5.36;P<0.001) than unstructured activities. Our results show that future global health efforts should augment the use of structured activities.

Depression, sleeping pattern, and suicidal ideation among medical students in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional pilot study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tasdik Hasan ◽  
Sahadat Hossain ◽  
Rajat Das Gupta ◽  
Vivek Podder ◽  
Naima Afroz Mowri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Cross Sectional

Translating medical documents into plain language enhances communication skills in medical students – A pilot study

2015 ◽  
Vol 98 (9) ◽  
pp. 1137-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Bittner ◽  
Ansgar Jonietz ◽  
Johannes Bittner ◽  
Luise Beickert ◽  
Sigrid Harendza
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Medical Documents

scholarly journals A Pilot Study Examining the Effects of Educational Setting and Stress on Multitasking Among Medical Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-148
Author(s):  
Jason Adam Wasserman ◽  
Anastasia Kononova ◽  
Tudor Moldovan ◽  
Shelia R. Cotten
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Educational Setting

scholarly journals Depression among medical students in Saudi medical colleges: a cross-sectional study

2018 ◽  
Vol Volume 9 ◽  
pp. 887-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatem Alharbi ◽  
Abulaaziz Almalki ◽  
Fawaz Alabdan ◽  
Bander Hadad
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical Colleges

scholarly journals Relationship between Self Concepts and Students' Academic Achievements in Selected Medical Colleges

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
Md Humayun Kabir Talukder ◽  
Shahana Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Dominant Dimension ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pearson Correlations ◽  
Medical Colleges

This cross - sectional descriptive study was conducted to explore the relationship of medical students' self-concept with their academic achievement. The study population was preclinical second year medical students. Study was carried out at one government and one non-government medical colleges in Dhaka. Sample size was 254 and sampling technique was purposive. The three dimensions of self concept: personal, family and social self-concept of medical students were assessed through 45- items questionnaire, which was answered on a five-point Likert scale. Data was collected by self administered structured questionnaire with Bengali version. Academic achievement data were measured by two term examinations marks of three subjects (Anatomy, Physiology & Biochemistry) based on written and oral examinations. Simple statistical tests were used to analyze the dominant dimension of student's self-concept. Inferential statistic such as ttest was used to analyze the difference between the self-concept and gender. Pearson correlations were used analyze the relationship between self-concept of students with their academic achievement. The participant's age ranged from 17 - 23 years with a mean of 19.8 and a standard deviation of 0.93. Among the respondents 47% were male and 53% were females. In term-I and term-II exams majority (66.9% and 66.1%) student were high achievers. The research finding showed that the dominant dimension of self concept was family self-concept (mean value was 53.73). Beside that, t-test analysis showed that there was significant difference between dimension of self-concept of students according to gender (p= 0.03, p= 0.02). Pearson correlations analysis showed that there was positive correlation between dimensions of self-concept with student's academic achievement. Study recommended to increase the student's self-concept in order to enhance their academic achievement. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjme.v2i1.18131 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education Vol.2(1) 2011: 10-13

scholarly journals Depression, sleeping pattern & suicidal ideation among medical students in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional pilot study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Tasdik Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Suicidal Tendency ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Prevalence Of Depression ◽  
Poor Mental Health Status

Background: Depression is a major morbidity and the most common mental disorder among the medical students in medical schools globally. Undergraduate students suffer stress more due to their academic curriculum than the students of other faculties. In low resource settings like Bangladesh, there is a dearth in research on mental health of undergraduate medical students. This pilot study was conducted to add to the existing limited evidence by reporting the prevalence of depression, describing sleeping pattern &amp; suicidal tendencies among medical students. Relevantly, we have investigated to the overall mental health status among the medical students in Bangladesh. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in two medical colleges of Dhaka in between July 2013 to December 2013, among 221 Bangladeshi medical students from first to fifth year. By convenient sampling technique, data were collected by a pretested, structured, self-administered questionnaire and analysis was done by SPSS 18.0 version. Depression were assessed by validated PHQ-9 tool among the respondents. Goldberg’s General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used for assessing overall mental health status. Results: Depression was found in 38.9% of participants with 3.6%, 14.5%, 20.8% of being either severe, moderate and mild depression respectively. 17.6% medical students had suicidal tendency or attempted suicide at least for once after attending medical school. The sleeping hours were inadequate and altered after starting this stressful academic course. 33.5% medical students had poor mental health status. There was a statistically significant association between poor mental health status with age group of less than 22 years and initial academic study year (1st to 3rd of MBBS).Conclusion: The findings are suggestive of a higher prevalence of depression among early year medical students and marginal predominance in males. Suicidal tendency is also higher. These calls for further investigation with situation analysis, qualitative explorations and surveys to explore the burden of such disorders in Bangladesh.

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