To determine the level of satisfaction among medical students of a public sector medical university regarding their academic activities

BMC Research Notes

Nabeel Manzar¹  Bushra Manzar¹ 

[1] Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

关键词: Academic Activities;    Curriculum;    Medical Education;    Dissatisfaction;    Satisfaction;    Students;   

Others  :  1167135
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-4-380

 received in 2010-12-14, accepted in 2011-10-05,  发布年份 2011

【 摘 要 】

Background

An ongoing evaluation system is essential to determine if the academic system in place has worked to produce a better product, hence the objective of our study was to evaluate the satisfaction level among medical students regarding their academic teaching and assessment method and what measures will they suggest for the future to rectify the current situation.

This questionnaire based cross sectional study was conducted in a public sector medical university from February to July 2010. A well structured questionnaire was administered to a random sample of 375 final year medical students. However 292 of the students provided informed consent and filled in the questionnaire which included their demographic profile as well as questions in line with the study objective. Data was entered in a Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version.16) and analyzed using descriptive statistics.

Findings

The male to female ratio in our study was 1:2. Most of the students (57.2%) were dissatisfied with the quality of teaching in the university. Fifty-seven percent of the participants believed that the current standard of their institute were not at par with those of international medical universities. BCQ's were the mode of examination questions preferred by the majority of the students. Most of the students (66.1%) wanted the university to conduct career planning seminars to help them plan their career.

Conclusions

These results suggest that the students of public sector medical universities are unsatisfied from current academic facilities and teaching activities. Students recommend increased emphasis on better lectures and practical training as well as a need to incorporate career planning sessions for the students to help plan them their future career paths.

【 授权许可】

   
2011 Manzar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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