Awareness Of First Year Mbbs Students On Mbbs Degree And Their Ideas: An Unexpected Reality

ABSTRACT

Introduction: MBBS is a dream to cherish for all students. It is a course which is respected globally. Medicalcourse is perceived as stressful by many of the undergraduates all over the world. They join the course at an earlyage without awareness of the details of curriculum, the approaches to be followed for theoretical understandingand acquiring practical skills and developing right attitude to be a good humane doctor.Aims and objectives: To know the awareness of MBBS students about their knowledge of it as a profession andtheir attitude to know the surrounding atmosphere and approach of students while pursuing the course.Material and methods: This is a retrospective, observational study started after taking the approval of InstitutionalEthical Committee of Government Medical College, KADAPA. The material for the study consisted of volunteersfromfirst year MBBS students of Government Medical College, WHO gave an informed consent to express their ideasfor the Questionnaire.Results: Students gave their answers to the questionnaire voluntarily and the answers are noted in a table. Mostof the people had no awareness of the MBBS degree till they entered the course and feel MBBS is tough andexpressed thatthey want good surroundings and circumstances to study the course.Discussion: Most of the students did not complete their teenage when they have taken the decision to join MBBScourse. They had decided even during their schooling,inspired by school teachers and medical college faculty.They are interested in games and felt the subjects are tough and still want to study.Their concentration in classesis 75-100% and they want to read daily but are getting disturbed by various problems. They even have a dream todo super specialty and a small group want to participate in research.Conclusion: The present study facilitates faculty in understanding the interests of students, circumstances forunder performance in examination and their problems. This provides for designing a teaching method to explainthe subject in an understandable way and for developing newer teaching and learning techniques.