Chinawa JM, Manyike P, Chukwu B, Eke CB, Isreal OO, Chinawa AT. Assessing medical students' perception of effective teaching and learning in Nigerian medical school.
Niger J Med 2015;
24:47-53. [PMID:
25807674]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Medical education is always in a state of dynamic equilibrium with continuous evolution of new techniques in teaching and learning.
OBJECTIVES
Objective of this study is to determine medical students' perception on preferences of teaching and learning.
PARTICIPANTS
A total of 207 medical students participated in the study. Most (73.9%) of them were males while the modal age group was 23-25 years. Majority (57.5%) of the students belong the middle socioeconomic class and 65.7% resided within the hostel.
RESULTS
Majority of the students (48.8%) believe two hours is enough to per lecture. Among the five different teaching-learning methods investigated, use of multimedia methods was found to be most effective. There exist a statistically significant association was found only in gender with regular oral examinations (Χ2 = 4.5, df = 1, p = 0.03) and socioeconomic class with dictation of lecture notes (Χ2 = 17.9, df = 9, p = 0.03).
CONCLUSION
The present day medical student will end up as a good clinician if modern techniques of teaching and communication skills of the lecturers are adopted.
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