Study on Participatory Learning among MBBS Students in a Medical College of West Bengal, India
Journal Title: Scholars Academic Journal of Pharmacy - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 8
Abstract
Teacher oriented teaching in medical education is still predominantly going on throughout the world including India. Active participation of students is rare or unknown. In these situations, an attempt can be taken as a piece-meal study on participatory learning as active learning. Its immediate impact also can be measured. The main aim of the work was to assess the feasibility of application of participatory learning; to observe the impact of participatory learning and to compare participatory learning with traditional teaching. In methodology, seventy eight students of 2nd MBBS batch were divided randomly into two groups. Participatory learning was introduced to Group I (n = 39) on the topic of Tuberculosis by faculties of community medicine through didactic lectures, interaction, patient examination, visit to DOT centre etc. Group II (n = 39) had conventional way of teaching on the same topic by faculties of community medicine through didactic lectures. Statistically significant results were obtained using skill score and empathy score questionnaire. Knowledge achievement was also encouraging with no statistical difference. In conclusion, the implementation of participatory learning was feasible in medical colleges of West Bengal and found to be more effective and accepted than traditional teaching methodology
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Palash Das, Dr. Mausumi Basu, Smt. Gagori Chowdhury, Dr. Gautam Barik, Dr. Bhaskar Shahbabu, Dr. Kaushik Sarkar
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