Comparative study between academic performances of traditional versus competency-based medical education M.B.B.S. curriculum students in Pharmacology

Background: The new competency-based undergraduate curriculum (CBME) was implemented in India from the academic year 2019. However, there has been no clear-cut comparison on its effect on the academic performance of the students. Aim and Objective: This study aims to find the comparison between students of traditional and CBME curriculum in the subject of pharmacology based on their academic parameters. It also aims to establish comparison and correlation of academic performance with gender, home place area, and mode of learning used. We also aim to determine whether objective parameters like multiple choice question (MCQ) section of preliminary examination show any correlation with final university examination performance. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional type of study. Seventy-seven students from traditional old curriculum and 98 students from CBME new curriculum batches participated with informed consent. The data for analysis between old and new curriculum batches were done using the mark obtained in final university examination in the subject of pharmacology. Quantitative parameters, that is, total marks overall, total theory marks, total marks in practical and oral viva combined, total marks in internal assessment and MCQ marks of preliminary examination, and qualitative variables such as gender of the student, home place area, that is, rural or urban and mode of learning used (physical or physical and digital) were obtained from the participants. IBM-SPSS version 25 software was used to perform descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, and Pearson’s correlation. Results: The results clearly demonstrate that the old curriculum batch of 2018 performed better than 2019 in overall as well as practical aspects of the subject. Pearson’s correlation between all the quantitative parameters, that is, total marks overall, total theory marks, total marks in practical and oral viva combined, total marks in internal assessment, and MCQ marks of prelims for the batch of 2019 showed positive correlation with each other. Conclusions: This study concludes that the old curriculum batch performed better than new curriculum batch in the subject of pharmacology. MCQ examination held in offline mode helps in better correlation with final university results as compared to online mode.

Comparing the Effectiveness of Case Based Learning with Conventional Teaching in Anatomy

Introduction: Case based learning (CBL ) is an efficient method of making dry subject like anatomy interesting and student centered. Subjects and Methods: A group of students of 1st MBBs were taught by CBL while the other group was taught by conventional teaching methods and both the groups were assessed for their performance. Results: Students had a better understanding of the topic on being taught by CBL. Conclusion: CBL is a good approach to teach anatomy to medical students as it makes the subject quite lively and clinically oriented.

The current nursing and midwifery education in Bangladesh / 国際保健医療

In Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Nursing Council (BNC) legally decides the curriculum for nursing and midwifery education and appoints nurses and midwives.<BR>The BNC had revised the curriculum in 2006, and it is currently educating based on a new curriculum for the Diploma Nursing Course.<BR>In the new curriculum, the BNC aims at strengthening the capabilities of nursing and midwifery professionals according to the care needed by each patient, cultivating the critical thinking skills of these professionals, and addressing the needs of nursing and midwifery based on communities.<BR>However, the shortage of health care professionals cannot be compensated only with the Diploma Nursing Course. Private nursing and midwifery education are being continued as Certificate Nursing Courses.<BR>In Bangladesh, in the stage transitorium of nursing and midwifery education, it will be a subject how health talented people's shortage of quantitative is coped with with strengthening of the education for the quality enhancement of nursing and midwifery from now on.

An Analysis on Teaching Process under the Context of New Curriculum Reform / 浙江中医药大学学报

The new curriculum reform brought forth under the context of a new round of knowledge transformation has endowed teaching process with new meanings. A new type of teacher-student realationship characteristized with equality, democracy and dialogue is the precondition of successful teaching under the context of new curriculum reform; Knowledge and meaning reconstruction by the way of presetting and generating is the main feature of teaching process; The development process consisting of knowledge and life of both teachers and students is the ideal goal of new curriculum reform.

Why Is Medical Education Reform Necessary? / 医学教育

In the 1970's, a sudden increase in the amount of medical information repressed the learning will of medical students in Western countries. In response to this, a few medical schools in Europe and the United States developed a “new medical curriculum.”<BR>Since learning will occurs in the limbic system, which is refractory to the neocortex, special measures are needed to heighten it. The “new medical curriculum” represents one such measure. Differences between medical schools in terms of efforts to stimulate learning will may make a significant difference in the quality of their graduates in the future.