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Effectiveness of topic briefing followed by field visit in improvement of academic performance of medical students: a descriptive interventional study.
ABSTRACT
Background:
In Community Medicine, students are made aware of real life situations and practical aspects through field visits. Visits are conducted without topic briefing assuming students will get orientation of the topic on site. Although utility of field visits is known, its cumulative effect with prior briefing is unexplored.
Objective:
To evaluate effectiveness of topic briefing followed by field visit in improvement of academic performance in the freshly inducted 1st batch of Indian medical graduates.
Methods:
In 48 freshly inducted MBBS students at our medical college. Two interventions were administered in sequence, Topic briefing session of 30 minutes followed by field visit to Anganwadi center lasting for an hour on the same day. We evaluated the academic performance through MCQ based Pre-test & Post-test and mean scores were compared.
Results:
Significant improvement was seen in mean total score out of 20 (theory-10 + practical-10) (from 9.14±2.46 at baseline to 14.46±2.01 post briefing to 16.21±1.57 after field visit) (RAMNOVA F-195.6, p<0.0001). Post-hoc Bonferronie’s test revealed significant improvement after both interventions. Mean theory score was significantly improved (from 4.14±1.70 at baseline to 7.81±1.36 post briefing to 8.31±0.77 post field visit) (RAMNOVA F-172.8, p<0.0001) However, post hoc analysis revealed significant improvement post briefing only & not post visit. Mean practical score was also significantly improved (from 5.00±1.81 at baseline to 6.64±1.49 post briefing to 7.91±1.18 after field visit) (RAMNOVA F-64.31, p<0.0001) & Post-hoc analysis also seconded this finding.
Conclusions:
The pre briefed field visit helped to significantly improve academic performance in both theoretical & practical aspects. Sequential application of topic briefing and field visit led to reinforcement of knowledge and improvement in precision. Clinical Trial: NIl
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