scholarly journals Objective Structured Practical Examination: our experience in Pharmacology at Goa Medical College, Bambolim-Goa, India

Author(s):  
Ulhas Kalgo Chandelkar ◽  
Rataboli PV ◽  
Samuel LJ ◽  
Kamat AS ◽  
Bandodkar LV

<p class="abstract"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Background: </span></strong>Practical examination is an important component of evaluation in the medical curriculum. OSPE (objective structured practical examination) pattern has structured questions with marks for each point and all the objectives of teaching-learning can be tested and assigned the desired weightage.</p><p class="abstract"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Methods: </span></strong>The evaluation was done for 146 II MBBS students in Pharmacology. Every student had to spend two minutes each for dosage form (DF) and drug advice (DA) at their respective stations. All the students had to attempt same questions to avoid bias of evaluation. Checklist was provided to the faculty who functioned as observers.</p><p class="abstract"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Results: </span></strong>All the students believed that OSPE tests practical skills. Most of the students rated OSPE as better than traditional viva or table work. Almost half the students were satisfied with the present setup. Since it tests practical skills better, all the faculty were in favour of conducting the entire practicals in OSPE setup. 50% of faculty proposed need of incorporating injection technique on dummies which will help the students to learn injection techniques well.</p><p class="abstract"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Conclusions: </span></strong>It is often difficult to measure practical knowledge and applications by written practical examinations.  In such situation OSPE can be structured and standardized to evaluate the clinical applications.</p>

Author(s):  
SARITA PANIGRAHY ◽  
SUNIL KUMAR PANDEY ◽  
MEHER SHEENA ◽  
BALA TRIPURA SUNDARI

Objective: The aim of the current study was to compare the effectiveness of only demonstration and demonstration coupled with the powerpoint method (intervention) in acquiring the knowledge of injection technique using objective structured practical examination (OSPE) as an evaluation tool. Methods: The present study was conducted among IInd professional medical undergraduates (N=80). Identification of medical devices, parts of a syringe and intravenous (IV) infusion set, intramuscular (IM) injection and intravenous infusion techniques were taught using demonstration and intervention method. Participants were then evaluated for their knowledge by OSPE method using validated checklists. Participants were also asked to give feedback for the teaching and evaluation method. Data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0.0, IBM Corporation. Results: After the intervention method 100% participant could identify needle, cannula, and IV infusion set. Noticeable difference was found in identifying parts of a syringe and IV infusion set after intervention method. OSPE evaluation post-intervention showed that more number of participants could perform the steps of injection correctly and in sequence. OSPE scores post-intervention differed significantly (<0.001) with demonstration method. Conclusion: Demonstration coupled with the powerpoint teaching method was found better than the demonstration method alone. This method should be used to impart practical knowledge of injection technique.


2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarmishtha Ghosh

The Department of Physiology of Pramukhswami Medical College at Anand, Gujarat, India, started using problem-based learning in a modified way along with didactic lectures to improve students’ understanding and motivate them toward self-directed study. After the didactic lectures were taken for a particular system, clearly defined short clinical problems related to that system were given to the students in the tutorial classes. Each tutor was assigned three to four groups of five to six students each. Problems were accompanied with relevant questions so as to streamline the thought processes of the first-year undergraduates. The tutor then facilitated the study process, and the students discussed among themselves to derive their solutions. At the end of the sessions, feedback was taken from the students through a planned questionnaire on a three-point scale. Of a total of 278 students over a span of 3 yr from 1999 to 2002, 74.4% of students favored a judicious mixture of didactic lectures and case-oriented problem solving in tutorial classes to be an efficient modality in understanding a system under study, and 84% of students stated the mixture of didactic lectures and case-oriented problem solving to be beneficial in relating a clinical condition to the basic mechanism; 82% of students believed that this module helped with better interactions among their batch mates, and 77.2% of students hoped to perform better in the university examination due to this new teaching/learning modality. They also expressed that this gave them ample motivation to do self-directed learning. It may therefore be concluded from the results of the present study that it is possible to have a problem-based learning module in the form of case-oriented problem-solving tutorials coexistent with the traditional didactic lecture module in the first year of medical education under a conventional curriculum.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Md Shawkat Alam ◽  
Sudip Das Gupta ◽  
Hadi Zia Uddin Ahmed ◽  
Md Saruar Alam ◽  
Sharif Muhammod Wasimuddin

Objective: To compare the clean intermittent self-catheterization (CISC) with continuous indwelling catheterization (CIDC) in relieving acute urinary retention (AUR) due to benign enlargement of prostate (BEP). Materials and Methods :A total 60 patients attending in urology department of Dhaka Medical college hospital were included according to inclusion criteria ,Patients were randomized by lottery into two groups namely group –A and group –B for CISC and IDC drainage respectively . Thus total 60 patients 30 in each group completed study. Results : Most men can safely be managed as out-patients after AUR due to BPH. The degree of mucosal congestion and inflammation within the bladder was found to be lower in those using CISC and the bladder capacity in these patients was also found higher.Patients with an IDC had a high incidence of UTIs then that of patients with CISC. During the period of catheterization the incidence of UTI was 43.3% in group B in comparison to 40% in group A; before TURP 36% in group B in comparison to 10% incidence in group A.According to patient’s opinion CISC is better than IDC in the management of AUR. Experiencing bladder spasm, reporting blood in urine, management difficulties, incidence and severity of pain were less in CISC group, and the method of CISC was well accepted by patients as well as their family members. Conclusion: From the current study it may be suggested that CISC is better technique for management of AUR patient due to BPH than IDC. It can also be very helpful when surgery must be delayed or avoided due to any reasons in this group of patients. Bangladesh Journal of Urology, Vol. 21, No. 2, July 2018 p.105-110


1972 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 573-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman K. Ikehara ◽  
David H. Mc Kibben ◽  
Jack L. Pechersky ◽  
Robert Rapp

A biopsy desiccation method was used to demonstrate the production of edema fluid after administration of a local anesthetic solution by jet and needle-syringe injection techniques. The jet injection technique produced less edema fluid than the needle-syringe injection technique.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1565-1578
Author(s):  
Xun Wang ◽  
Hanlin Li ◽  
Lisheng Wang ◽  
Yongzhi Yu ◽  
Hao Zhou ◽  
...  

Ovarian cancer is a malignant tumor that poses a serious threat to women’s lives. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can classify the type of ovarian tumors, but few of them can provide exactly the location information of ovarian cancer cells. Recently, deep learning technology becomes hot for automatic detection of cancer cells, particularly for detecting their locations. In this work, we propose a novel end-to-end network YOLO-OC (Ovarian cancer) model, which can extract the characteristics of ovarian cancer more efficiently. In our method, deformable convolution is used to enhance the model’s ability to learn geometric deformation in space. Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) module is proposed to automatically learn the importance of different channel features. Data experiments are conducted on datasets collected from The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University Medical College, China. Experimental results show that our YOLO-OC model achieves 91.83%, 85.66% and 73.82% on mean average precision [email protected], [email protected] and mAP@[.5,.95], respectively, which performs better than Faster R-CNN, SSD and RetinaNet on both accuracy and efficiency.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Hamonangan Tambunan ◽  
Amirhud Dalimunte ◽  
Marsangkap Silitonga

The scenario based e-learning in Electrical Engineering Education Learning (EEEL) was developed by covering the scope and characteristics of all subjects and the competence unit of graduates in the field of pedagogy, professional, social and personality, with url addresed http://jpte-ft-unimed.edu20.org. The scenario incorporates the concept of Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Contextual Teaching Learning (CTL), by supporting of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to establish the competence of the students, from beginners to become proficient, as the teachers of electrical engineering, and the electrical technicians. Based on the analysis, it obtained the students’ learning motivation, the lecturers’ attitude in teaching, and the students’ learning outcome are tend to be high, and the competence of the students who used the model are better than not use.


2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukhsana Parvin ◽  
Md Nazmul Haque ◽  
Naser Ahmed ◽  
Reza Ahmad ◽  
Md Imran Ali ◽  
...  

Objectives: Different teaching aids are advocated in the medical colleges for delivery of lectures such as power point presentation, blackboard, transparency sheet, overhead projectors, extempore and lecture sheets .The aim of our study was to compare the more acceptable teaching methods between the students of Dhaka Medical College and Enam Medical College. Materials and Methods: Total one hundred students were selected from fourth year in each medical college. They were asked to fill in a fourteen item questionnaire about their perception of five lecture delivery methods. Questionnaire was properly explained. The results were analyzed separately to find out any differences between preferences of teaching methods in both medical colleges. Results: In DMC 50% students preferred traditional blackboard method ,25% PowerPoint presentations, 5% both blackboard and PowerPoint, 16% extempore and 4% lecture sheet .On the other hand, in EMC, 53% mentioned PowerPoint presentation as most acceptable, 38% blackboard, 5% combined blackboard and PowerPoint and 4% extempore. Some important comments were recorded which could be valuable for the medical teachers. Conclusion: The study showed that students of DMC clearly prefer traditional blackboard method rather than other teaching aids, whereas students of EMC prefer PowerPoint presentation. The study does not bring out any evidence based superiority of any lecture delivery method. It appears that any teaching aid can be appropriate and effective if the teachers are properly trained. This highlights the need for formal training in teaching technologies for good presentation and thus motivate the students. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjmed.v21i2.13612 Bangladesh J Medicine 2010; 21: 60-64


2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Abdullah Al Farooq ◽  
MA Mushfiqur Rahman ◽  
Tania Tajreen ◽  
Eqramur Rahman ◽  
Md Minhajuddin Sajid ◽  
...  

Background: Carcinoma pancreas is being diagnosed increasingly with the help of conventional imaging like ultrasonography (USG), computerized tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Imaging also gives the opportunity to assess resectability. In our country MRI and CT scan are not widely available and most of the pancreatic carcinoma is too advanced for curative surgical resection when diagnosed. These are unresectable carcinoma pancreas (UCP). Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of imaging in diagnosing carcinoma pancreas and to assess resectability after comparing them with peroperative findings. Methods: This retrospective study was carried out in the department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery in Bangladesh Institute for Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetic Endocrine and Metabolic disorders (BIRDEM) hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh from July 2004 to June 2006 (2 years). After laparotomy findings and histopathological confirmation 50 patients were labeled as UCP. Among 50 patients male were 28 & female patients were 22. Imaging modalities used before surgery was assessed and compared with per operative findings. USG were done in all patients and CTscan in 45 patients. MRI was done in 08 patients suspected clinically as pancreatic carcinoma where USG /CT scan had failed to reach a conclusion. Findings of the various imaging studies regarding diagnosis and unresectability were compared with per operative findings. Results: USG was able to diagnose 42 (84%) pancreatic carcinoma patients with unresectibility in 29 (69%). Forty five patients (90%) were diagnosed by CT scan and could label 38 (84.44%) as unresectable. MRI was 100% accurate to diagnose and label the entire 08 patient as unresectable carcinoma pancreas. Cumulative multimodal preoperative imaging was 91.33% accurate in diagnosing carcinoma pancreas and could tell the features of unresectibility in 73.59% patients. Conclusion: CT scan should be the primary imaging modality for diagnosing pancreatic carcinoma and its resectability. MRI is very promising for diagnosing and assessing UCP. Multimodal imaging is better than single imaging. Chattagram Maa-O-Shishu Hospital Medical College Journal Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2013: 23-26


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Shamima Parvin ◽  
Md Ahsan Habib ◽  
Humayun Kabir Talukder ◽  
Rukshana Ahmed

Introduction: Faculty development has become an essential part of any medical college for effective teaching-learning session. Centre for Medical Education (CME) has been organizing ‘teaching methodology’ workshop to train up the medical teachers in Bangladesh as a part of the faculty development programme. Objectives: To assess the students’ views regarding teaching performances of the teachers who had attended the workshop of CME. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in thirteen selected medical colleges of Bangladesh. Students’ opinions were collected by a structured questionnaire of 5-point Likert scale that included 13 separate positive statements regarding teaching performances. For each statement, the mean score was calculated and interpreted as, excellent ≥ 4, Good ≥ 3 to ≤ 4, satisfactory ≥ 2 to ≤ 3, unsatisfactory ≤ 2. But mean score ≤3 indicates deficit aspect of performances. Results: According to students’ aggregated views, teaching performances of 15% teachers were excellent, 51% were good, 25% were satisfactory and 9% were unsatisfactory. Conclusion: The trained teachers are not practising the expected standards in the tutorial classes in all aspects. Initiatives should be taken to pay more attention to deficit aspect of performances. Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.14(1) 2018: 46-49


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