scholarly journals Performance of Undergraduate Medical Students in Formative and Summative Evaluations in Community Medicine in a Medical College in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saikat Bhattacharya ◽  
Soumitra Mondal ◽  
Kaushik Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Community Medicine ◽  
Summative Evaluation ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The Third ◽  
Continuous Activity ◽  
Good Learning

Background: Assessment and evaluation should be a continuous activity associated with curriculum development. Continuous formative examinations are the stepping stone for good learning and better performance in summative examination. However, the correlation or predictability of formative examinations has not been quantified in the Community Medicine subject in the bachelor of surgery (MBBS) course in India. Objectives: The objective of this study was to explore the correlation of performance in continuous assessments and final summative evaluation in third-year professional MBBS students in Community Medicine and the predictability of formative scores for the final examination marks. Methods: An institution-based retrospective longitudinal study was conducted in the Medical College of Kolkata, India. A total of 237 undergraduate medical students were followed up for two years to track their results in three successive examinations. The scores obtained in formative and summative evaluations in third-year professional MBBS students in Community Medicine were analyzed to find out the correlation between them, and multiple linear regression was also performed in SPSS. Results: The strong and significant correlation (0.64) between the sixth semester and internal examination results suggests the importance of the sixth semester examination for the preparation of finals. The third semester examination, although conducted two years prior to the finals, still had significant correlation with the finals, but the correlation was weak (0.17). Conclusions: Formative examination in Community Medicine, which spans for overall three and half years, plays an essential role in the preparation of students for the finals, more so for achieving good scores. Performance in these two examinations can only explain more than one fourth of the variability of the performance in the finals.

scholarly journals Subject preference for future specialization among undergraduate medical students and their perception towards community medicine as a career option: a cross sectional study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 3578
Author(s):  
Bitan Sengupta ◽  
Rituparna Das ◽  
Shampa Das
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Community Medicine ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Career Option

Background: India is currently in need of large number of public health specialists to combat the double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. But it was seen that medical students are less interested in a career as a public health specialists. This study aimed to assess the preferences of subjects for future specialization among medical students and to understand their attitude towards Community Medicine as a future career.Methods: A cross-sectional study was done among 200 MBBS students selected by stratified random sampling at Agartala Govt. Medical College of Tripura during April to May 2018. Data were analyzed using SPSS (version 25.0).Results: Medicine was the most preferred subject (35%) for specialization followed by obstetrics and gynecology (16%) and surgery (15%). About 4% of the participants opted Community Medicine for future specialization. Lack of personal satisfaction, lack of future career prospective and lack of opportunity to earn name and money ranked top most cause for not choosing Community Medicine as a career.Conclusions: Preference of Community Medicine for future specialization was very limited among medical students. Interest on Community Medicine as a career among MBBS students can be improved by proper counseling and modification of curriculum.

scholarly journals An interventional study to assess the effectiveness of ‘WhatsApp’ as a teaching learning tool in community medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 2564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padmavathi V. Dyavarishetty ◽  
Dipak C. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Community Medicine ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Epidemiology Module

Background:Undergraduate medical students, perceive the subject of Community Medicine as irrelevant to their role as physician and majority of the students dislike the subject and consider it as dull and boring. The present research study aims to study the effectiveness of ‘WhatsApp’ as medium of teaching complementing the traditional teaching to enhance the knowledge and skills of the undergraduate medical students using case based learning.Methods:Before and after comparison Interventional study design amongst 49 sixth semenster students conducted over a period of six months in a private medical college. Implementation of the study divided into three phases – preparatory, intervention and evaluation phase.Results:The improvement in average marks scored for epidemiology module was 1.97 and that for diabetes module was 5.38 which were statistically significant. The participation rate for the various modules ranged from as low as 10.2% to 73.5%. About 90% students perceived ‘WhatsApp’ as an effective tool for teaching-learning; a tool that stimulates and encourages learning.Conclusions:There was a significant improvement in knowledge amongst the students. Though perceived as an effective tool for learning by the students, participation rate in online discussion was poor over the course of implementation. 

e-Learning: Practices Among Undergraduates of a Medical College of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Background Information ◽  
P Value ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
E Learning

Background: Information technology (IT) is a new way of teaching and learning. One of the promising media of information technology is e-Learning, which is used to enhance knowledge and skills among users. A student gains better and deep knowledge through a useful tool. This survey aimed to determine practices among medical students for e-Learning. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted on 184 students amongst the 500 students currently enrolled in medical college. Data was collected using questionnaires and were analyzed through SPSS version 22. Chi-square was used for qualitative values. Results: Majority 90.80% (n=167) students were aware of e-Learning and were statistically high in first year students (p-value: 0.018). The student did not show statistically significant results for content learned through e-Learning with a p-value of 0.063. Different resources were used for e-Learning in which videos had the highest percentage (87.60%) and audios were used as the least resource for e-Learning (29.20%). Daily, 56% of the students use e-Learning for 1 hour or less and only 3% of the students used it for more than 4 hours. Conclusion: Majority of undergraduate medical students were aware of the use of e-Learning and most of them preferred e-Learning for their course work and studies showing a significant increase in understanding and use, compared to studies conducted earlier. Participants found e-Learning useful and effective tool in increasing knowledge and understanding of their subject. Keywords: e-Learning; Practices; Students.

scholarly journals Refractive Errors and its Associated Factors among Undergraduate Medical Students in Kathmandu

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Aparna Rizyal ◽  
JS Sunrait ◽  
A Mishal
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Refractive Error ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Refractive Errors ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Parental History ◽  
Medical College

 Refractive error is a defect in the optical system of the eye which prevents light from being brought to a single point focus on the retina, thus reducing normal vision. This optical defect is the second most common cause of visual impairment globally as well in Nepal. At present, there are 285 million visually impaired people in the world. An estimated 4 out of 5 visual impairment (80%) can be prevented or cured, uncorrected refractive errors are the leading cause (42%) followed by cataract (33%). A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted to determine the proportion of undergraduate medical students with refractive errors in Nepal Medical College, and to identify factors associated with it. A total of 210 medical students volunteered for this study, with 100 males (47.6%) and 110 females (52.4%). The age of these students were between 18 to 26 years, with an average of 20.5 years. The proportion of medical students with refractive error was slightly more than half (51.4%), with simple myopia being the leading type (42.9%), followed by astigmatism (7.1%) and simple hypermetropia (1.4%). Parental history of refractive error was observed to be significantly associated with that of the medical students. There was also a significant association between refractive error and the daily use of mobile phones and laptops. However, years spent in medical education were not observed to be significant.

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