%0 Journal Article %1 adityaprasadsarkar2013perception %A Aditya Prasad Sarkar, Goutameswar Majumdar %D 2013 %E Ahmad, Tauseef %J Reviews of Progress %K Community Lecture MBBS Medicine Students. class %N 17 %T Perception on lecture class in Community Medicine among MBBS students of West Bengal in India %U http://reviewsofprogress.org/UploadedArticle/39.pdf %V 1 %X Back ground: Lecture is an important, accepted and well used method of sharing and providing information in a group of students in a specified time and place in an organized manner. Defect in this method may affect adversely both the knowledge provider and accepter. Therefore a continuous search is an essential need for improvement of lecture classes that is the impetus of our study. Objectives: i) To study the perception of MBBS students about lecture class in Community Medicine and ii) to recommend measures for improvement of those classes. Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was undertaken among 4th and 7th semester MBBS students of Burdwan Medical College in West Bengal, India using pretested self-administered questionnaire. Results: 4 th semester students opined to have significantly more number of lecture classes (p=.024). They preferred pre-lunch session for lecture more (p=.022) than 7th semester students and more number of students in lecture class (p=.016). 7th semester students realized the necessity of lecture class significantly (p=0.002) more and mentioned about lack of summarization at the end (p=0.000). Conclusion: It is revealed from the study that there are a number of lacunae in organization of lecture classes and also in the way the classes are taken. The findings will help the teachers to use this method more effectively for betterment of students.

@article{adityaprasadsarkar2013perception, abstract = {Back ground: Lecture is an important, accepted and well used method of sharing and providing information in a group of students in a specified time and place in an organized manner. Defect in this method may affect adversely both the knowledge provider and accepter. Therefore a continuous search is an essential need for improvement of lecture classes that is the impetus of our study. Objectives: i) To study the perception of MBBS students about lecture class in Community Medicine and ii) to recommend measures for improvement of those classes. Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was undertaken among 4th and 7th semester MBBS students of Burdwan Medical College in West Bengal, India using pretested self-administered questionnaire. Results: 4 th semester students opined to have significantly more number of lecture classes (p=.024). They preferred pre-lunch session for lecture more (p=.022) than 7th semester students and more number of students in lecture class (p=.016). 7th semester students realized the necessity of lecture class significantly (p=0.002) more and mentioned about lack of summarization at the end (p=0.000). Conclusion: It is revealed from the study that there are a number of lacunae in organization of lecture classes and also in the way the classes are taken. The findings will help the teachers to use this method more effectively for betterment of students. }, added-at = {2014-08-17T08:43:05.000+0200}, author = {Aditya Prasad Sarkar, Goutameswar Majumdar}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d664c1ecc9df1eaaa8bb262005139d5b/sciencejournal}, editor = {Ahmad, Tauseef}, interhash = {e53ec55b4ecc0c0a1a26aa5ecd18672d}, intrahash = {d664c1ecc9df1eaaa8bb262005139d5b}, journal = {Reviews of Progress }, keywords = {Community Lecture MBBS Medicine Students. class}, month = {August}, number = 17, timestamp = {2014-08-17T08:43:05.000+0200}, title = {Perception on lecture class in Community Medicine among MBBS students of West Bengal in India }, url = {http://reviewsofprogress.org/UploadedArticle/39.pdf}, volume = 1, year = 2013 }