Introduction: Teaching aids are the motivational tool which plays an important role in teaching and learning processes in such a way that it makes the classroom lively, active and interactive. It creates an environment of interest for the students as well as it helps to clarify and understand the subject matter in a better way. The objective of this study is to know the opinion of students regarding the teaching aids among 1 st year MBBS students during teaching and learning activities in physiology at SSR Medical College.
Methods:The data were collected by pre-designed questionnaire among the 1 st year MBBS students of SSR Medical College, Belle Rive, Mauritius. The study was conducted between March and April, 2016. Out of 147 students, 139 students were participated in the study. The data were analyzed using nonparametric test and P values were analyzed by using Chi-Square test. P < 0.05 was considered significant.Results: 60.4% of students thought that the combination of black board and PowerPoint slides was more beneficial compared to blackboard, PowerPoint and whiteboard which were selected by 24.5%, 14.4% and 0.7% respectively. The combination of blackboard and Power Point slides was selected as the most understandable and informative by 51.8% and 64% students respectively. Similarly, the same teaching method was considered the most helpful in retention by 48.2% respondents and most emphatic on important points by 47.5%. More than 50% of the students found the combination of blackboard and Power Point slides as the most captivating (55.4%), interactive (57.6%), providing excellent visual clarity (56.8%), easy for summarization (51.1%) and effective for presentation (56.8%). 46% of the students thought that this combination of teaching aid covered the more topic per lecture.
Conclusion:This study shows that the majority of the students preferred combination of aids viz. black board and Power Point for learning and teaching physiology.
Introduction Knowing a person’s blood type is not only important in transfusion medicine and forensic medicine but is also useful for predicting a person’s characteristics including intelligence, knowledge, skill and behavior. It is recognized that intelligence, knowledge and skill are assessed by performance in examination. The objective of this study was to determine distribution of blood groups among students and its association with their academic performance.
MethodsThis was an analytical study that was conducted among the medical students of Nepalese Army Institutes of Health Sciences (NAIHS) in Department of Clinical Physiology from June 2014 to April 2019. This study was conducted among 738 students by using convenient sampling method. Blood group was determined on the basis of agglutination reaction. Academic performance of students was assessed by the marks obtained by them in annual final examination.
ResultsBlood group O was the most prevalent at 33.5%, followed by B at 29.5%, A at 29% and AB at 8%. Distribution of Rh positive and Rh negative were 96.6% and 3.4% respectively. The mean scores obtained in final university examination were highest in blood group A (62.9%) and lowest in blood group AB (60.3%) but the difference between different blood groups was not statistically significant.
ConclusionBlood group O was the most common blood group. Rh positive was present in 96.6%. Though mean score was highest in blood group A, significant association between blood groups and academic performance was not seen in our study.
Introduction: Blood pressure measurement has a great implication in medicine. Every medical personnel should have a sound knowledge regarding blood pressure measurement. This study was conducted with the aim of determining the knowledge regarding blood pressure measurement among first and second year medical students of a medical college.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted by Department of Physiology of Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences from June to December 2021 after receiving the ethical approval from Institutional Review Committee with registration number 394. One hundred ninety-seven students from first and second year were included in the study using whole sampling technique. Data was entered and analysed using Microsoft Excel 2019 and Statistical Package for Social sciences version 16.0. Descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage for binary data and mean, standard deviation for continuous data were calculated.
Results: Among 197 students from first and second year, 175 (88.83%) had satisfactory knowledge regarding blood pressure measurement with score≥8 in Objective Structured Practical Examination. Eighty five (85.86%) students from first year and 90 (91.84%) students from second year had scores ≥8, hence had satisfactory knowledge on blood pressure measurement. A total of 18 (18.18%) first year students achieved a score of 10, while 24 (24.49%) students of the second year scored 12, which were the modal score.
Conclusions: The proportion of first and second year students having satisfactory knowledge regarding blood pressure measurement is higher in our study.
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