Appraisal of medical students insight on audio visual aids used for teaching and learning of didactic lectures of pharmacology: a study from a medical school of Mauritius
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Abstract
Background
Didactic lectures are traditional way of teaching and learning and it is commonly used in teaching Pharmacology. The objective of this study is to find out medical students appraisal regarding the audio visual aids used in didactic lectures of Pharmacology at SSR Medical College Mauritius. This is the first study done on students appraisal on teaching aids used in teaching and learning of Pharmacology from Mauritius.
Methods
This is a cross sectional questionnaire based observational study carried out at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Medical College, Mauritius between 1st April 2016 to 1st May 2016. Chi square test were used for analytical purpose questionnaire validation tests indicated that the Alpha Cronbach was 0.70. P-value < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.
Results
Out of 194 students 175 completed the questionnaire completely and the response rate of the study was 90.20%. A combination of teaching aids were chosen as the best teaching aids in pharmacology by most of the students 69.7%, followed by dictating notes 10.9%, blackboard and power point presentation 9.1%.
Conclusion
A combination of different audiovisual aids, eg. Blackboard/whiteboard along with power point presentation is the best teaching aid. This aid is best for perception of diagrams and flow chart in Pharmacology, understanding the concepts of pharmacology, classification of drugs, mechanism of action of drugs, indications, adverse effects, contraindications, drug interactions and dose of drugs. This aid facilitates two-way interaction between teacher and the student.
