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How to teach personality disorder session? VDO-clips discussion method enhances medical students for more obviously understanding

Authors

  • Thawanrat Srichan

Theme

4BB Teaching tools

INSTITUTION

Vachiraphuket Medical Educational Centre, Psychiatric Department, Phuket, Thailand

Background

► 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.

Summary of Work

► 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.

Summary of Results

Group Statistics

 

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).

Conclusion

►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.

Take-home Messages

► An alternative teaching method should be used to encourage medical students in order to help and support for more comprehension.

Acknowledgement

► My parents, my teachers and my medical students.

Background
Summary of Work
Summary of Results

      

 

Group Statistics

 

group

Number

Mean

Std. Deviation

Std. Error Mean

score

1&3

24

14.3750

1.63687

.33412

2&4

24

16.4583

1.50302

.30680

 

Independent Samples Test

 

Levene's Test for Equality of Variances

t-test for Equality of Means

 

 

95% Confidence Interval of the Difference

F

Sig.

t

df

Sig. (2-tailed)

Mean Difference

Std. Error Difference

Lower

Upper

score

Equal variances assumed

.085

.773

-4.593

46

.000

-2.08333

.45362

-2.99641

-1.17025

Equal variances not assumed

 

 

-4.593

45.669

.000

-2.08333

.45362

-2.99659

-1.17007

Conclusion
Take-home Messages
Acknowledgement
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