Theme
4BB Teaching tools
INSTITUTION
Vachiraphuket Medical Educational Centre, Psychiatric Department, Phuket, Thailand
► Personality session is the subject that requires imaginary and conceptual framework when students approach to the patients. Only normal lecture does not enough for them to gain essential knowledge and to express their empathy to others. VDO-clips are a good device for students to clearly understand the complicated learning.
► This study aims to compare two kind of teaching methods in personality session for 5th year students. There were 48 students in the year 2013 enrolled and divided into 4 groups. Normal lecture was used for group 1 and group 3 while VDO-clips discussion and lecture were applied for group 2 and group 4. Formative evaluation was used in order to assess their understanding after session.
Group Statistics |
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group |
Number |
Mean |
Std. Deviation |
|
score |
1&3 |
24 |
14.38 |
1.64 |
2&4 |
24 |
16.46 |
1.50 |
► The total scores were 20. The mean score from group 1 and group 3 was 14.38 ± 1.64 while 16.46 ± 1.50 from group 2 and group 4. VDO-clips discussion gave statistically significant different when compare with normal lecture methods by independent t-test (p <0.05).
►The study reveals that VDO-clip discussion method supported medical students to gain more understanding in personality session when it was applied to normal lecture. This method allowed students to view samples character from the clips.
► An alternative teaching method should be used to encourage medical students in order to help and support for more comprehension.
► My parents, my teachers and my medical students.