Perception of Medical students regarding lectures

Authors

  • Komal Shahid Medical Officer, Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi
  • Aftab Ali Malik Consultant Urologist, Federal Government Services Hospital, Islamabad
  • Mehreen Baig Associate Professor, Foundation University Medical College, Rawalpindi
  • Raheel Younas Medical Officer, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore
  • Shahid Mahmood Professor of Surgery, Fizaia Hospital Islamabad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48036/apims.v15i3.245

Keywords:

Lecture, medical education, multimedia.

Abstract

Objective: To assess the interest of medical students in lectures.
Methodology: This prospective study was conducted in four different medical colleges of Pakistan from 1st January till 30th March 2015. Total of 600 students were included in this study. Data collection procedure used was questionnaire which contained both open and close ended questions. Written consent was taken from all the participants & permission was taken from the ethical review board of college. SPSS 15 was used to analyze the data.
Results: Almost 59% of students in our study consider the lecture as uninteresting tool in medical studies and only 46% consider lecture as essential part of their education during the college timings. Good part of our study is majority of the students managed to reach lecture in time. 77.25% students consider use multimedia helpful during lectures.
Conclusion: According to our study, students consider lecture as not very important and uninteresting part of medical education.

Additional Files

Published

2020-01-13

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2019): July-September

Section

Original Articles

License

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.