Objectives: Due to the long-lasting pandemic measures, such as lockdown and stay-at-home orders, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on higher education. In this study, we aimed to determine sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepiness, and sleep hygiene, and their association with anxiety, and their correlation in preclinical medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Materials and Methods:We included 101 medical students, aged between 17-20 years of both sex from a tertiary care medical institute. Standard questionnaires were used to assess sleep quality, sleep hygiene, daytime sleepiness, and anxiety among medical students.Results: Fifty-one percent of the medical students had good sleep quality, but 35% had borderline poor sleep quality, and 13% had poor sleep quality during the lockdown. Six percent of medical students had alarmingly high daytime sleepiness. The total Adolescent Sleep Hygiene Scale (ASHS) score was grouped into poor sleep hygiene (ASHS score ≤ 3.8) and good sleep hygiene (ASHS score ≥ 4.9). Overall, sleep hygiene of medical students was poor due to behavioral arousal and bedtime routine factors, and the scores for anxiety and sleep hygiene were significantly negatively correlated, whereas daytime sleepiness showed a significant positive correlation.
Conclusion:Our study revealed a high prevalence of poor sleep quality among medical students during the lockdown. Poor sleep hygiene is an eye-opener for the mostly ignored aspect of altered sleep patterns.
Background: Tests like auditory P300 event related potential, neuro-psychometric pen pencil Montreal
Cognition Assessment Test (MOCA) and Choice reaction time have been used as indexes of cognitive
function. Thus this study has been planned with the aim to evaluate cognitive ability of a normal adult to nd out normative data
and its, variation with age and gender in Uttarakhand region of India.
Materials and Method: This cross-sectional study was carried out in the department of Physiology of AIIMS, Rishikesh on 52
healthy with ages ranging from 20 to 40 years, equal number of male & female volunteers with the ability to understand test
procedures. Following tests were performed in the given order for uniformity during 11-1 pm timing of a day:
1. Event Related Potential-P300 2. Neuro-psychometric assessment (Hindi Montreal Cognitive Assessment -HMOCA test) and 3.
Choice Reaction Time.
Results and Conclusion: Mean of P300 Latency is 310 ± 37.14 msec, mean of P300 Amplitude is 14 ± 7.5 uv (from Cz electrode
site), mean of Montreal Score is 24.81±3.25, and mean of CRT is 584.5 ±84.06 ms in all the subjects. All the parameters are
better in younger age group. All the parameters are better in male except MOCA score
“Counselling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals. It’s a type of applied psychology”. When used for helping an individual in quitting a habit it requires using cognitive therapies. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly used in the healthcare sector, but its use for counseling purposes is still questionable. Recently a virtual health worker has been introduced by World Health Organization (WHO) representing increased use of AI in healthcare. This article also explores the features of this virtual health worker and how the counseling process is done by a human health professional and what is different in counseling done by a virtual health worker.Counselling
Articial intelligence (AI) incorporated in the curriculum will promise for scientic development of students to keep pace
with other modern elds like precision medicine. In the present scenario of COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected the
healthcare delivery immensely, we rely on the physicians using AI based technology to assist in decision making and ultimately improved patient
care in remote areas of the country. Since AI is technology of future; there are concerns that it may replace human workforce in healthcare industry.
This article is an attempt to put forth perspectives on possibilities of dehumanisation of medical profession with use of AI and blending with
CBME curriculum.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, the “Opportunity to Reform
Assessment” Webinar was a global event that was urgently
needed. The Department of Physiology, All India Institute of
Medical Sciences Rishikesh, India, hosted a faculty
engagement webinar for people interested in medical
education and evaluations on July 21, 2021. The objective of
the webinar served both to disseminate the knowledge and to
receive feedback and gather inputs on online assessments.
This webinar should help prestigious medical experts,
including faculty from all cadres involved in teaching, and
result in improvements for planning and implementing future
assessments during pandemic-like situations. Additionally,
this webinar should assist in the discussion of the issues in
conducting online formative and summative assessments in
different medical institutions, as well as to raise solutions to
the current challenges of the COVID-19 era within a certain
timeline.
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