ASSESSMENT FOR THE NECESSITY TO CHANGE UNDERGRADUATE PHARMACOLOGY CURRICULUM IN MEDICAL COLLEGES: A QUESTIONNAIRE BASED STUDY
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 46
Abstract
BACKGROUND Pharmacology forms the backbone of rational therapeutics. The primary objective of teaching pharmacology is to enable undergraduate medical students to prescribe rationally. Hence, a survey was carried out at Medical Colleges of West Bengal to assess whether any change is needed in Pharmacology curriculum. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional study involving junior doctors (house staffs, interns), faculty members of Pharmacology and clinicians of Medical Colleges of West Bengal in Kolkata, who were surveyed with 14 validated questionnaires which were designed based on internationally accepted “Likert Scale.” A study was carried out involving ninety participants. Analysis was based on proportion and percentage wise distribution of various parameters used in the questionnaire. RESULTS In this study faculty member of pharmacology, clinicians and junior doctors who participated were ninety in number; 96.5% clinicians and 93.4% pharmacologists were in favour of bed side case study and integration of pharmacology with other clinical subjects; 93.1% clinicians and 93.3% pharmacologists were in favour of teaching some topics of pharmacology in final year again; 97% clinicians and 96.7% pharmacologists were in favour of partial handouts before lectures; 89.7% clinicians and 100% pharmacologists felt that improved training could have prevented adverse drug reaction. CONCLUSION So in this study, we evaluated that all the three groups are in favour of modification of undergraduate curriculum
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Sabnam Begum, Munmun , Mausumi , Anup Das, Avijit , Tapabrato Ray
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