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EVALUATION OF CLINICAL TEACHING OF UNDERGRADUATES DURING THEIR ROTATION IN DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY.

Syed Ahmer Hussain, Muhammad Imran Yawar, Khawaja Mohsin Ihsan, Najam Iqbal CH

Background: There is no doubt that evaluation has got a pivotal role in any educational and training system. Evaluation helps us to get an idea about the standard of our teaching and is equally important for all the stake holders of an educational programme. There are different ways of evaluating any teaching or training programme. These include getting a feedback from the students, peer assisted evaluation and performance of the students in their assessment. In order to evaluate our clinical teaching for undergraduate students, we decided to get feedback for small group teaching from the IV year MBBS students at the end of their batch’s clinical rotation. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate our department’s clinical teaching for IV year MBBS students. Materials and methods: The study was carried out in the Department Of Ophthalmology Ghazi Khan medical College DGK from May 2016 to August 2016 .It was a questionnaire based cross sectional survey and included written feedback from 32 students from two clinical batches. Feedback from Batch 1 regarding their experience during the six week stay in our department was taken. The feedback was then analyzed, appropriate and practicable suggestions by the students were identified and incorporated in the clinical teaching of next batch. Having implemented the changes, we took the feedback from the batch 2 and the results were compared. Results: Though most of the students were over all satisfied by teaching in either batch but the number of students who were satisfied with the environment in the department was 56.25 % (batch 1) vs 87.5% (batch 2).There was a significant increase in percentage of students who enjoyed their stay in our department, from 75% (batch 1) to 87 % (batch 2). Conclusion: Our study concludes that evaluation of teaching methodology and implementation of recommendations suggested by the students leads to higher level of satisfaction amongst the students and definitely has a positive effect on their learning. Key words: undergraduate, clinical teaching,evaluation,ophthalmology, feedback

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