scholarly journals Student Abuse in Medical Colleges of Karachi, a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study

Author(s):  
Warda Musharraf ◽  
Kiran Khan ◽  
Asma Pervaiz ◽  
Saba Younis ◽  
Sana Shiekh ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol Volume 9 ◽  
pp. 887-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatem Alharbi ◽  
Abulaaziz Almalki ◽  
Fawaz Alabdan ◽  
Bander Hadad

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (235) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitasha Sharma ◽  
Chet Kant Bhusal ◽  
Sandip Subedi ◽  
Rajeshwar Reddy Kasarla

Introduction: Sudden outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has affected the educational system worldwide, forced the medical colleges to close due to lock down, and disrupted the classroom face-to-face teaching process. As a result, medical colleges shifted to an online mode of teaching. The aim of this study is to find out the perception towards online classes during COVID-19 lockdown period among MBBS and BDS students at a medical college of Nepal. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study carried out at Universal College of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital among first and second year Bachelor in Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor in dental surgery students from 1st June 2020 to 30th August 2020. Ethical approval was taken from Institutional Review Committee of Universal College of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital (IRC UCMS, Ref: UCMS/IRC/025/20). Convenient sampling method was used. Semi-structured questionnaire was used. Statistical Package for Social Sciences 22 was used for analysis and frequency and percentage was calculated. Results: One hundred fifty six (73.93%) students were enjoying online learning only to some extent, 135 (63.98%) felt online class not equally effective as face-to-face teaching. The students had disturbance during online classes as internet disturbance 168 (79.60%), and electricity problem 47 (22.3%). Similarly, many students 155 (73.50%) felt external disturbance, headache 26 (12.3%), and eye strain 26 (12.3%). Conclusions: Most of the students suffered from disturbances during online classes probably because of internet and electricity problem. When compulsory to conduct online classes, students felt that not more than three online classes per day should be conducted to avoid eye strain and headache.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Khundmeer Banu Athani ◽  
Kasturi B Hunshikatti ◽  
Sadanand B Patil ◽  
Vinay Dastikop ◽  
Kamarudin Jaalam ◽  
...  

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Md Humayun Kabir Talukder ◽  
Md Zakir Hossain ◽  
Md Abdul Hanif ◽  
Nasrin Akther ◽  
Ismat Ara Perveen

This cross-sectional study was conducted to explore the views of intern doctors regarding reviewing & updating of MBBS curriculum 2002. This study was conducted upon 257 intern doctors of different government and non government medical colleges in Bangladesh. Data were collected using self administered structured questionnaire using purposive sampling. Study revealed that the contents of the course, the teaching methods and the assessments system for the undergraduate medical students needs few improvement as majority of the intern doctors viewed those areas of the curriculum are all right and few of them opined for change. Study revealed that the formative & summate assessments, carry on system, block posting and duration of internship should be redesigned & rethink to make the curriculum more user friendly and effective as intern doctors have different opinions regarding these issues. Study also recommended that more extensive study is needed to get unanimous opinion from the intern doctor's of the medical colleges to review and update the MBBS curriculum 2002. Key words: Review; Update; MBBS Curriculum DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.3329/bja.v9i1.8146 Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy January 2011, Vol. 9 No. 1 pp 35-40


2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (234) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Singh ◽  
Madhusudan Subedi ◽  
Smriti Pant ◽  
Pragya Rai ◽  
Krishna Gupta ◽  
...  

Introduction: The outbreak of coronavirus disease in Nepal led medical colleges to suspend in person teaching-learning activities and ultimately online platform was introduced to deliver the contents of medical education. The objective of this study was to describe the perception of medical students towards online teaching-learning introduced during the COVID-19 outbreak in Nepal. Methods: An online survey using a descriptive cross-sectional study design was carried out among 515 undergraduate medical students currently enrolled in medical colleges in Nepal. A semi-structured questionnaire in Google form was utilized to collect data. The link of the Google form was sent to the potential respondents through email and social media. Descriptive statistics, including frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation were used to analyze data in SPSS vs20. Ethical approval was sought from Nepal Health Research Council to conduct this study, and digital informed consent was taken from study respondents. Results: The overall score of perception of online teaching-learning was 17.61±7.19, which indicated many problems in this method of teaching-learning. The mean score of perception of online teaching-learning was found to be different across sex, location of enrolled medical colleges, having a personal electronic device, having an internet connection at residence, having separate room/space for attending online classes, and self-rated computer skills. Moreover, only 28 (5.4%) of respondents had perceived online teaching-learning as a better method of delivering content of medical curricula. Conclusions: Surveyed medical students in Nepal were found to perceive many problems in online teaching-learning. Moreover, management and faculty members need to take the necessary measures for enhancing the online teaching-learning quality.


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