Role of exposure to data collection and analysis activities during community orientation program and its effect on knowledge and attitude of medical undergraduate students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20163942Keywords:
Attitude, Community, Education, Knowledge, Medical students, Oriented, ResearchAbstract
Background: The current medical education of health professionals is insufficient. There is a need for creating additional settings for health professional’s education beyond four walls of medical college. Students during COP learn about research and health problems of community. The objectives was to evaluate role of exposure to data collection and analysis activities during Community orientation program [COP] and its effect on knowledge and attitude of medical undergraduate students of a Medical College.
Methods: Interventional study was carried out amongst the 3rd and 4th term undergraduate medical students between December 2014 and February 2015. A pretested semi structured questionnaire was administered on knowledge and attitude. Intervention consisted of didactic lectures and hands on exercises on data collection and data analysis. After 1week of survey, post test was conducted.
Results: The study was completed by 125 (82.8%). Lack of training was main barrier felt by 73% in pursuing research. It was noted that 59.2% had satisfactory knowledge score during pre-test, which increased to 78.4% in post test. Favorable attitude was seen among 90.4% of students in post-test. Majority of the students felt intervention to be useful.
Conclusions: COP is a good opportunity for inculcating concept of research methodology among students.
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