Medical students perceptions regarding the curriculum in community medicine: A cross sectional study
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction Community Medicine CM is meant to equip the students with the knowledge and skills order to identify the prevalent health problems in the community and find methods of alleviating them The present study is undertaken to assess the general perception of students towards Community medicine and analyze if students prefer community medicine for a careerMaterials and Methods This was a cross sectional study carried out in a Government Medical college of Dhule City from August to October 2017 Present study carried out among students from IV and VII semesters who belonged to 2nd year and Final 3rd year part I of MBBS respectively A predesigned pretested semi structured questionnaire was used for evaluation Data was analyzed with SPSS version 200Results 165 students were included in the study of them 503 were females Common general perception of Community medicine was as paraclinical subject by 557 as only preventive and health education role by 776 and 655 students 83 thought that the curriculum is relevant to present era 509 had perception of CM focus only on prevention while there were varied views regarding the topic irrelevant and exempted from the syllabus 479 felt than CM lack application and needs practical example rather than just being theoretical Only 36 students were ready to opt career in community medicineConclusion Students seem to understand the subject and donrsquot have an issue with the topics or its projection however there is reluctance to choose it as a careerKeywords Community medicine Perception Medical students
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Bawa Mukesh, Patil Sarika, Kinge Amol, Borde A. N.
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