scholarly journals First-year students’ perceptions of team-based learning in a new medical genetics course

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-177
Author(s):  
Vinicius Canato Santana ◽  
Carlos Rocha Oliveira ◽  
Ramon Bossardi Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Genetic Diseases ◽  
Medical Genetics ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Students First ◽  
First Year Medical Students ◽  
First Time ◽  
Large Groups

ABSTRACT Background Medical education has evolved considerably over the last few years, especially through adoption of new technologies and active methodologies. These methodologies aim to improve learning and engage students deeply in the process. TBL is a methodology widely used in health schools, including Medical Schools. We can use it to work with large groups, divided into small teams. The students first work individually, then within teams, and finally the groups cooperate to solve applied problems. Objectives To describe students’ perceptions and satisfaction about a Medical Genetics course organized into blocks of subject in which we used TBL sessions with first-year medical students. Methods A Medical Genetics course were organized into subject blocks in which a TBL session was conducted in each of these blocks to improve the learning process. At the end of the course, the students answered a questionnaire on satisfaction and perceptions. Results By the first time we described a Medical Genetics course organized into 5 blocks of subject matter on a total of 25 genetic diseases in which a TBL session was conducted in each of these blocks. We enrolled a total of 290 participants and 96% of the students were satisfied with TBL. Furthermore, 97% of students believe that TBL helped them to learn, and 87% approved of use of TBL in the future at other stages of their medical course. Conclusion Application of the TBL method during a medical genetics course was well-received by students and proved an important tool in the structures of curricula for medical education at this university.

The medical career choice motivations — Results from a Hungarian study

Open Medicine ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmond Girasek ◽  
Regina Molnár ◽  
Edit Eke ◽  
Miklós Szócska
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Traditional Health ◽  
Medical Career ◽  
First Year Medical Students

AbstractSome decades ago being a medical doctor was characterized unambiguously as a profession that offers help and serves the patients’ needs during medical treatment. In today’s society, this image of the medical profession has been substantially changed. The present paper aims to examine medical career choice motivations and preferences of choosing speciality, in the light of current social and economic changes in Hungary. The study was carried out by using a voluntary, self-administrated, questionnaire among first-year medical students and resident doctors in four medical faculties in Hungary. The career choice motivations of the first-year medical students and resident doctors are similar and match to the traditional health profession career choice motivations. Nevertheless the first-year students consider high income as one of the most important factors. They appear more conscious and more ambitious regarding their future speciality choice. The Hungarian health care system and medical education must be prepared for the presence of students that are aware of the high market value of a medical diploma, have excellent language skills, and consider migration as one main factor in their motivation when choosing a medical profession.

FUNCTIONING OF MEDICAL TERMS IN CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE FIRST-YEAR FRENCH-SPEAKING STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
TATIANA V. LUKOYANOVA ◽  
◽  
LYUBOV M. KASIMTSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Modern World ◽  
First Year ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Medical Terms ◽  
Students First ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Ordinary Consciousness

He problem of interaction between language and society is more and more relevant in the modern world. Changes of the world have influenced the discourse in various spheres of communication. Moreover the progress of medicine has led to changes in the system of medical terms, and, consequently, to difficulties in understanding of terms in the ordinary consciousness. A person always wants to understand other people and to be understood by them. So it is the main goal of communication. The article deals with the issue of the functioning of medical terms in the minds of first-year French-speaking students. First-year stu- dents have the ordinary consciousness. Medical terms, which are studied by them (first-year students), function in the ordinary consciousness in incorrect form. It's because they are based on associations, feelings which the person has during the process of cognition, and, therefore, they must be interpreted. During the process of learning, there is a need to clarify the personal meanings that medical students have in regarding to special terms. In this article the author gives the results of the research concerning the French-speaking students' knowledge of medical terminology. The author gives examples of the perception and rethinking of medical terms based on common knowledge and examines the formation of scientific knowledge to develop the language of medicine in the consciousness of students and its competent use in the future.

Assessing Digital Literacy of First Year Students of Dhaka University: A Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Md. Maidul Islam ◽  
Sadia Afroze
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
First Year ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
First Time

The main aim of this paper is to assess digital literacy of fresher’s of Dhaka University. A survey questionnaire was developed and used to collect data on students’ personal and academic information, information on technology usage and skills on using technologies. In order to analyze the influence of students’ demographic characteristics of their opinion on using ICT and multimedia and their opinion on skill or ability of using ICT and multimedia, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were carried out. The results showed that since those students lived in village their digital literacy is less than the students who lived in town. There are some differences in students’ opinion and skill or ability on using ICT and multimedia. The paper suggested some guidelines for improving the digital literacy of the students of Dhaka University. This is the first time an effort has been made to assess 1st year students’ digital literacy in Bangladesh. The authors feel this study may encourage more such research on digital literacy in Bangladesh and beyond.

Transcripts of a Medical Education in Humanities Module

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ravi Shankar ◽  
Kundan Kr. Singh ◽  
Ajaya Dhakal ◽  
Arati Shakya ◽  
Rano M. Piryani
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Medical College

A medical humanities (MH) module has been conducted for first year students at KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal for the last four years. The students are divided into small groups and case scenarios, role-plays, paintings, and activities are used to explore MH. The module for the fourth batch of students was conducted from December 2011 to March 2012. In this article the authors provide a brief overview of the MH module, Sparshanam and the learning objectives of different sessions. They provide transcripts of some of the role plays done during the module. The role plays were conducted in Nepali with the help and guidance of the facilitators and the written transcripts in English language were provided by different student groups.

Cognition, Study Habits, Test Anxiety, and Academic Performance

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 1219-1226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Chr. Kleijn ◽  
Henk M. van der Ploeg ◽  
Robert M. Topman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Study Strategies ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Study Management ◽  
First Year Medical Students ◽  
Successful Students

The Study Management and Academic Results Test (SMART) was developed to measure study- and examination-related cognitions, time management, and study strategies. This questionnaire was used in three prospective studies, together with measures for optimism and test anxiety. In the first two studies, done among 253 first-year students enrolled in four different faculties, the highest significant correlations with academic performance were found for the SMART scales. In a replication study among first-year medical students ( n = 156) at a different university, the same pattern of results was observed. A stepwise multiple regression analysis, with academic performance as a dependent variable, showed significant correlations only for the SMART Test Competence and Time Management (Multiple R = .61). Results give specific indications about the profile of successful students.

scholarly journals Nutrition Practice and Knowledge of First-Year Medical Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Perlstein ◽  
Scott McCoombe ◽  
Susie Macfarlane ◽  
Andrew Colin Bell ◽  
Caryl Nowson
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
First Year ◽  
Nutritional Knowledge ◽  
Dietary Recommendations ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
First Year Medical Students

Objectives. To compare the knowledge of Australian dietary recommendations to the dietary practices of first-year medical students. Design. Over a period of four years, anonymous online surveys were completed by medical students attending a first-year nutrition lecture. Background. There is little information on the nutritional knowledge and dietary practices of medical students. Setting. First-year postgraduate university medical students, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Participants. Between the years 2012 and 2016, 32%–61% of first-year students completed the survey. Phenomenon of Interest. Student’s knowledge of dietary guidelines and related practices. Analysis. The frequency of response was assessed across the different year cohorts using descriptive statistics. Results. Between 59% and 93% of first-year students correctly identified the recommended daily servings for fruit, and between 61% and 84% knew the vegetable recommendations. In contrast only 40%–46% met the guidelines for fruit and 12%–19% met the guidelines for vegetables. Conclusions and Implications. Discrepancies between students’ nutrition knowledge and behavior can provide learning opportunities. With low rates of fruit and vegetable consumption in medical students, increased awareness of links between nutrition and health, together with encouragement to make behavioral changes, may increase the skills of graduates to support patients in improving dietary intake.

scholarly journals Empathy as Related to Motivations for Medicine in a Sample of First-Year Medical Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira ◽  
José Loureiro ◽  
Bruno Trancas ◽  
Ana Papoila ◽  
José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
First Year ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Physician Empathy ◽  
First Year Medical Students ◽  
Person Orientation

Professionalism and empathy are crucial in clinical settings. An association would be expected between empathic attitudes and altruistic motivations for a medical education. However, data is scarce in first-year students, and a previous small-scale study did not fully confirm the hypothesis that personoriented motives would have a strong relationship to empathy. The present study tested this association in a larger sample. 202 first-year medical students ( M age = 19.0 yr., SD = 2.7; 67.3% women) were assessed cross-sectionally, using the Vaglum and colleagues' indexes on motives for choosing medicine (security/status, person-orientation, and interest in the natural sciences) and the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy for students. There was a weak association between empathy and person-orientation, but the evidence regarding links between empathy and the three motivation scores was low overall. In this Portuguese sample there was not a clear-cut association between empathy and motivations for medical school.

scholarly journals A Structural Equation Model for Analysis of Factors Associated with the Choice of Engineering Degrees in a Technical University

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Hervás ◽  
Joan Guàrdia Olmos ◽  
Maribel Peró Cebollero ◽  
Roberto Capilla Lladró ◽  
Pedro Pablo Soriano Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
First Choice ◽  
The Individual

Many different factors are taken into account by students when choosing a degree and university. Some of these are general considerations, such as the quality of the degree course (ratio of available places/places in first choice, cut-off mark, etc.), while others are subjective factors (e.g., friends doing the same course). This paper presents a partial multivariate model that considers the weight of the different variables linked to this decision, as identified in the bibliography. We analyzed four samples of first-year students (totaln=1790) from different engineering degree courses at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 academic years. All the students involved in the study had chosen this university and their courses as their first option. The overall effect shows that the structural model adjusts reasonably well to the different engineering courses analyzed. Similarly, the individual models for each engineering degree manage to identify the different effects involved. In the case of the engineering degree based on new technologies (ICT), the statistical effects are much greater and more statistically significant than in the other three branches of engineering considered. Social and individual factors were seen to have more impact on the choice of ICT degrees at the UPV.

scholarly journals Determinants of Cumulative GPA of First Year Widyatama University Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.34) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Farida Nursjanti ◽  
Indra Taruna ◽  
Shinta .
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
First Year ◽  
Exam Score ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Students First ◽  
The University

As a private college-oriented quality, Widyatama University has some quality commitments including receiving potential prospective students and giving priority to customer satisfaction. However, the university only uses entrance exam score, does not use previous academic performance such as national exam score to select potential prospective students. The aims of this research were to examine and to evaluate the factors which affect students’ First Year Cumulative GPA (FYCGPA) in Widyatama University. This research also investigated the determinants of students’ FYCGPA by the factors to explain variances in FYCGPA. This research used gender, major in high school, national exam score and entrance exam score as independent variables. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was carried out in this study. The result indicated that gender, entrance exam score, and major in high school have significant effect to FYCGPA. The model used in this study showed that 24.6% of the variances in FYCGPA can be explained by gender, entrance exam score, and major in high school. This results show that Widyatama University should consider more factors in selecting potential prospective students and providing services to first year students.  

scholarly journals ATTITUDE TOWARDS STRESS AMONG FIRST YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
I.I CHEREMISKINA ◽  
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A.S ELZESSER ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Adaptive Strategies ◽  
First Year ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Educational Situation ◽  
Heavy Loads ◽  
First Year Medical Students ◽  
Research Show

The results of modern research show that first-year students, in particular students of medical universities, experience severe stress due to the changed conditions of their life, heavy loads and physiological limitations. The consequences are quite serious, among those a decrease in academic achievement, lowered satisfaction with the educational situation and the chosen profession as a whole, an increase in psycho-emotional stress, the maximum number of expelled students, including expelled at their own free will, falls on the first year. An empirical study will identify problem areas and outline a set of measures to adapt freshmen. The attitude to stress in the context of the subjective approach can be considered through the analysis of interrelated cognitive, emotional and behavioral components. The study was conducted among first-year medical students of various specialties. The results show their extremely negative attitude towards stress. In first-year students' perception, stress is closely related to learning situations and living in a dormitory; they experience negative emotions in stress situations and primarily use avoidance as a coping strategy. We can say that they practically don’t notice the mobilizing possibilities of stress, which raises the question of the need for their psychological support, in particular, training in more adaptive strategies for coping with stress.

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