Abstract: In response to the new national medical education paradigm shifting; Mansoura Faculty of Medicine starts applying competency based medical education since 2018; one of the learning strategies it adopts is Case Based Learning (CBL). In this study we evaluated students` and faculty staff`s perception towards the effectiveness of this newly introduced method using a cross-sectional descriptive study on the starting cohort semester 2 students (no=1800) during the academic year 2021-2022 and the total number of academic staff member involved in conducting the sessions were 119. We used two validated self-administered online questionnaires formed of both open- and closed- ended questions. The data were analyzed; about near half of the students (47%) agreed that these sessions motivated them to learn, increase their long-lasting memory and helped them to correlate between clinical and basic science and also gave them opportunity to ask staff other questions related to their specialty, as well helped them to be in close contact with teaching staff, improved their communication skills and build their self-confidence. On the other hand, around 65% of the staff members enjoyed CBL sessions, agreed that the cases facilitated active discussion and interactions between staff and students and also improved the students’ ability to face others and the sessions were well organized. the overall perception from both students and staff was satisfactory and encourage us to seek for more improvements taking into consideration all comments they mentioned.
Keywords: CBL; perception evaluation; small group, CBME; Bachelor’s Medical program; Mansoura University; Egypt; knowledge integration.
Title: Evaluation of Student’s and Academic Staff`s Perception Towards the Effectiveness of the Newly Introduced Small Group Sessions (Case based learning): A Pilot Study
Author: Ashraf Shoma, Hend M. H. Abo el-Atta, Aya Kamal El Saeed, Muhammad El Malky
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
Vol. 11, Issue 1, April 2023 - September 2023
Page No: 161-166
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Published Date: 02-August-2023
