EVALUATION OF ON GOING INTEGRATED TEACHING PROGRAM AMONG UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS

Ritu Purohit; Salil Dube; Harish Agarwal; Niket Verma

Volume : X, Issue : VII, July - 2020

EVALUATION OF ON GOING INTEGRATED TEACHING PROGRAM AMONG UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS

Ritu Purohit, Salil Dube, Harish Agarwal, Niket Verma

Abstract :

Introduction: Current medical education imparts knowledge in a disjointed manner and does not allow students to develop the skills to investigate, analyze, and prepare to perceive the topic as a whole. We need to teach our students to correlate the various subjects to create better doctors. Teaching different aspects of a topic by faculty members of relevant departments instead of one department will better assimilate the knowledge. Ultimately this will impart the basic knowledge of the topic for better understanding of the various aspects of the diseases which will create better doctors in society who will provide good health care services for community needs. Thus to improve effective diagnosis and better treatment of the patients and to improve the quality of student’s learning, integrated learning is the need of an hour. Material and Method: Integrated teaching programme is being conducted in our institution from last one year. To evaluate the perception of faculty and students this project was initiated. Perception of faculty and students on acceptability and usefulness of integrated teaching was taken on structured feedback questionnaire based on 5 point Likert scale and data was statically analyzed. Results: Integrated teaching was well accepted by students and faculty, they had a positive attitude towards this innovation teaching. Conclusions: Integrated teaching led to improvement in student motivation, satisfaction, and engagement. A majority of students and faculty accepted that Integrated teaching was an effective learning and teaching method and supported the incorporation of Integrated teaching into routine curriculum.