Volume : V, Issue : XII, December - 2015

Impact of clinical posting in MBBS Pharmacology syllabus on learning rational therapy: a study from a Medical college of West Bengal

Abhishek Ghosh, Tirthankar Deb, Chanchal Kumar Dalai, Kushal Banerjee, Keshab Mukhopadhyay

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<p>The primary objective of teaching pharmacology is to enable undergraduate medical students to take rational therapeutic decisions in clinical practice. However, this objective is not adequately met by current curriculum. Department of Pharmacology of College of Medicine & JNM hospital, Kalyani has started mandatory clinical posting of all 5th semester students. This study was done to know whether it was fruitful. To carry out the study, faculties of Department of Pharmacology of the College developed a set of questionnaire comprised of 10 questions, covering important clinical areas. Students were asked to answer those before starting and at the end of clinical posting. The marks were compared. There was increment of 2.06 in the average score (out of 10) of the 83 students. Wilcoxon’s signed rank test was done to compare the matched pair and p value obtained was 0.0001. Clinical posting during 5th semester of MBBS significantly helped to grow the clinical knowledge of those students. Multicentric studies are needed to prove the effectiveness of clinical posting for inging out this much needed change in pharmacology syllabus of MBBS.</p>

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Abhishek Ghosh, Tirthankar Deb, Chanchal Kumar Dalai, Kushal Banerjee, Keshab Mukhopadhyay Impact of Clinical Posting in Mbbs Pharmacology Syllabus on Learning Rational Therapy: a Study From a Medical College of West Bengal Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 12 December 2015


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