Flipped Publishing: A New Paradigm for Medical Textbooks

Shahid, Shahab; Rodrigues, Mark; Maxwell, Simon; Mason, Katrina; Gimzewska, Madelaine; Qureshi, Zeshan

doi:10.2218/resmedica.v23i1.1328

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“…This study also narrates that a large percentage of the students (46.12%) rely only on lecture notes to study for exam and only few students (16%) refer to text books. These findings are contrary to the findings seen in other studies where textbooks are considered as main instructional material for medical students 8,9 . For the proper implementation of any medical school curriculum textbooks become integral part of education system, and in developed countries textbooks are considered as the major source of the teaching learning process to be undertaken at medical schools.…”

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Attitude of overseas Pakistani students towards modular examination.

Syed,

Mehreen Fatima,

Sahar Sharif

et al. 2019

j Muhammad Med Coll

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Introduction: Modularization an innovative initiative taken by educational institutes around the globe to increase the student’s productivity and efficiency. Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude regarding modularization in overseas Pakistani students. Methodology: A cross sectional survey was conducted at the International Medical College of one of the public sector university during December 2012 till February 2014. A total of 425 undergraduate students were approached through non-probability convenience sampling technique and requested to fill a semi structured questionnaire after taking written consent. Result: According to the outset of this paper a total of 425 students were questioned. Among the total 189 students were male (44.47%) and 236 were female (55.52%) out of which the majority belonged from North America/Canada (79.06%). A vast percentage (48.94) invested of about 2 hours of study daily. 63.06% of students believed modular examination to be a fair system and 32.94% of students thought it to be a failure to affect any educational standards. 36% of students blame stress/load for their poor result and 31.06% agrees with the lengthy syllabus being responsible for their down showing GPA’s. 43.06% of students face hardships because of irregular attendance. The major complaint of students (39%) was their teaching style. 46.12% of students prefer to study from lecture notes. Thus, this study completely clears all the aspects of student’s performance in modular system of examinations and its flow and shortcomings. It is important that more effort should be put into cater to student’s stress, loads and make it an effective system to improve a student’s capability and efficiency. Conclusion: The findings of this study can guide us to revise and reshape the assessment system practiced at various medical colleges in Karachi.

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