Impact of Seminars By and For Medical Students
Impact of Student Seminars
Keywords:
Student seminars, feedback, student-student interactions, communicationAbstract
Background: The undergraduate medical program is a 5 year academic course wherein Physiology is taught in the first professional year. Physiology is nowadays a subject of clinical interest. It provides the basis to understand physiological processes and phenomena and thus the pathophysiology of disease. It also helps the students understand the basis for therapeutics and the management of diseases. The faculty of the Physiology department has a greater responsibility in making the study of the subject innovative, interesting and participatory, for the students. One such method we have adopted is organizing seminars by the students and for the students. Aim & objectives: This study aims to gauge the impact of student seminars on students who participated as well as on those who were spectators. Materials and methods: Students were encouraged to volunteer for taking seminars. They were given help by faculty to study and present small subtopics for about 10 minutes each. Later they were analyzed and statistical tests were done. Results: There was a positive response from both the participants and the spectators for the use of student seminars as a method of teaching/learning. Conclusions: Student seminars were discovered to be a good method of teaching learning which improved the depth of learning, teacher-student and student-student interactions and communication skills amongst the students participating. This was evident from the feedback obtained from the students. [Bahmed F et al NJIRM 2014; 5(2):103-106]
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