Current Trends In Learning By Medical Students In Rural Medical College Garhwal Region Uttarkhand

Research Article
Kakarla Thota Kanugolu Murali Mohan., Rajiv Garg., I.S.Yog., Prem Singh B and Kakarla Ujjwala
DOI: 
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Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Learning trends _MBBS undergraduates_student preferences_rural _medical college
Abstract: 

Background: The main objective of the research paper is focused on day today learning trends and expectations of Undergraduate medicos from their teachers. An overall 90 students were sampled from 400 medical students posted in the H. N. Bahuguna Base Teaching Hospital attached to the above medical college excluding all the first year MBBS students. Methods: This was a observational cross sectional study. The data was collected by questionnaire set by experienced faculty members of the institution. Results: On an average each and every male student spends 22 minutes and a female spends 20.2 minutes per day in reading the news papers. Over all magazine reading was 28.2% in male students and 23.5% in females. The students preferred to read their own books in their rooms or library and underline or highlight the text (males 35.9% and females 33.3%) rather than taking down notes (males 10.3% girls 9.8%). 17.9% of boys and 11.8% of females revised the topics. About 8.7% of males and 12.8% of girls tend to revise more than once. 38.4 % of girl students and 23.5% males tried to read their own books in the Library. 76.5% of girls 61.6% of boys borrowed books from Library. About 7.8 % of girls and 5.1% of boys adopted examination oriented reading; 48.7% of males and 52.9% of females studied less than an hour per day. Those who studied between 1-2 hours per day comprised a compared to studies is15.8% in males and22.5% in females. There were some comments from the students which were more of expectations they wanted to derive from the teachers. Conclusions: With regard to teaching method, the combination of teaching method is more effective when compared to didactic lectures. The results of our study indicate that the students favour student-teacher interaction by chalk & board teaching with emphasis on practical way of learning. They prefer teachers who are knowledgeable with an ability to teach, ratio of 30.8 % males and 15.9% females. The students who were bound to study their text books daily for more than 2 hours include 23.1% of boys and 29.4% of girls. The average time spent in reading text books per day by males was for 1.41 hours and females read for 1.35 hours. 33 students tried to prefer the teaching methodology of talk and chalk adopted by the teachers, 9 preferred power point or slide presentations and 6 students preferred other audiovisual presentations like cinematography. Around 19 girls preferred the talk and chalk lectures, whereas 9 girls preferred power point presentations and the rest video streaming. Out of 30 boys 22 were regular in attending the lecture classes, 6 were irregular in attending and two students didn’t turn up to attend the classes. While 14 boys preferred self study, 10 preferred group studies and while 3 desired for special coaching by the teachers, the rest of the students wanted to adopt all the three methods of study. All students possessed mobile phones and 48 students possesed laptops. Analysis of time spent by the students in learning include: The average time spent by students with teacher in the class room or beside (60%) is for 3 hours and 30 minutes for both the sexes. The average time spent in self study (40%) either at library or in the hostel for males is 2 hours 18 minutes and it is 2 hours 28 minutes for girls