Acquisition of knowledge of basic sciences in dental students

Author: 
Jyoti Kiran Kohli and Anupma .V.Betigeri

Introduction: Success of   undergraduate students depends upon the teaching programs with the basic planning and modulating of the study. To achieve the goal of betterment of students we should communicate and incorporate the preference and mode of teaching them as per the syllabus and must know areas.
Though a lot of verbal and nonverbal feedback is conveyed to the teachers but much of work is not published, this inspired us to undertake this study. This study was done with the aim of 3rd year students getting oriented and correlate basic sciences (Anatomy & Physiology) with clinical subjects for better understanding of disability and disease process. Students are in the best position to comment on the effectiveness of any teaching system, judge and assess the teaching process.
Methods: The present cross sectional study was conducted by department of Anatomy and Physiology at a Dental institute in, Haryana. The Ethical clearance was obtained from the institute. Out of 100 only 40 students consented and were involved in this study. Revision based classes where Scheduled and held up  for students focusing on the clinical and Patho- Physiological topics for example  - Congenital  heart diseases, Congenital heart failures, Nutrition deficiency, nutritional disorders and  sequel of abnormalities  in embryogenesis . Feedback forms were given to these students after the classes and later analysed.
Results: Out of 40 students, 22 students require regular classes and benefitted, whole 18 of them suggested more emphasis and revision of subjects. Out of 22 subjects 18 found classes being worth and having a good correlation, relevance and implementation with applied sciences. Out of 40 only 24 students found quality of teaching material being very good, informative with correlation to clinical knowledge.14 students strongly agree and 10 agreed that these classes create awareness among students  about important topics. Only 5 students disagreed with these classes for their application and 4 disagreed for their correlation to the clinical topics.
Conclusion: This study thus support that training programe and feedback analysis is a must to understand and benefit the students. This also help the teachers to improve their students performance and get better results. Feed back analysis is must for understanding of students and engaging teachers to get better results from students as well as  improve their  performance.

 

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3929-3931
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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/23956429.ijcmpr201812590
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