Impact of microteaching workshop on the teaching skills of postgraduate students, Odisha, India

ABSTRACT

Background: Young teachers can skill for better teaching-learning ways can be acquired through structured and cheaper faculty training techniques. Microteaching can be adopted as one such measure to improvise teaching-learning skills among young teachers. Aims and Objectives: This study was conducted also to knew the impact of knowledge and perception regarding microteaching among postgraduate medical students and improvise on them. Also to knew the improvement in teaching skills after training and established the usefulness of this modality of microteaching by looking into its effectiveness. Materials and Methods: The participants were 29 1st year postgraduate students of Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. One day microteaching workshop was arranged for them in the Medical Education Unit of KIMS. The participants were surveyed through questionnaires (A, B, C, D, and E). McNemar’s Chi-square test did this by comparing between pretesting and post-testing scores of Questionnaire A and D (Kirkpatrick level 1, 2, and 3) as well as B and C (Kirkpatrick level 4) by use of the STATA software. A three-point Likert scale (0 = Not useful, 1 = Doubtful, 2 = Useful) was used to assess the participants’ responses based on the qualitative analysis method from questionnaire E. Results: Pre-post testing revealed improvement in knowledge and perception about microteaching among the majority (P < 0.05). They improved skills-wise too (P < 0.05). All the participants believed that microteaching is useful with a score of 2 on a three-point Likert scale. Conclusion: The microteaching among postgraduate medical students before proper lecture is very much useful. This type of workshop and training should be done in regular interval.