EVALUATION OF TASK BASED LEARNING PROGRAM IN PRECLINICAL MEDICAL EDUCATION
Keywords:
early clinical exposure, student evaluation, feedback, standardized patient, focus group discussion.Abstract
The conventional curriculum in preclinical medical education has a need for early clinical exposure programs that help in correlation of basic science data with clinical skills. This is helpful to develop clinical reasoning skills, problem-solving abilities, team work, communication skills and overall attitudes and behavior relevant for a healthcare provider. Preclinical task-based learning (TBL) is an active learning strategy in which the focus for the first-year medical student is a real task done by a doctor. In this strategy the student-doctors undergo a standardized patient encounter and discuss the learning issues related to the task in the first year of medical school. The current study is focused on the student perception of the effectiveness of task-based learning module. The TBL was conducted among first year medical students for nine topics that are commonly encountered in the clinics. After TBL was planned and implemented the evaluation of the modules was done using focus group discussions. The students highlighted the importance of standardized patients in the TBL strategy in providing early clinical exposure in preclinical medical education. They reported its usefulness gaining essential knowledge, skills and attitudes for medical learning. They reported positive outcomes of module design and processes and activities in TBL. Based on the negative aspects of the modules, future improvement was suggested in improving the usefulness of standardized patient encounter. This study showed the novice learners’ outlook of the potency of TBL for several other topics of clinical relevance to provide early clinical exposure in medical schools.
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