Effectiveness of preventive medicine education and its determinants among medical students in Malaysia

Anil, Shirin; Zawahir, Shukry; Al-Naggar, Redhwan Ahmed

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“…9 The study participants specified that among all the preventive medicine subjects, screening, control, smoking cessation and immunization are "extremely important to learn". 13 Hence, community medicine has not proved to be a popular discipline among medical students, in published literature.…”

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Perception and awareness of first year MBBS students about the subject community medicine

Gupta

Kishore²

2022

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: In India, departments of the medical discipline community medicine or preventive and social medicine began to be established in the year 1955. It plays important role in medical curriculum for imparting training as comprehensive healthcare giver at various levels of health system. This study aimed at assessing perception and awareness of first year MBBS students about the subject community medicine, before formal introduction of the discipline as a part of their medical curriculum.Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in a class of seventy-four students of first year MBBS, at Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi, in May 2022.Results: One-third of students had either parent/sibling/close relative as doctor. One-third of students knew at least one person who had pursued the discipline ‘community medicine’. Most of the students (85%) expected to learn healthcare management at primary healthcare level from the medical discipline. Only one-third of the students were aware of the subject before joining MBBS. Students whose parent/sibling/close relative is doctor, differed significantly about having the knowledge about the discipline before admission to MBBS (p value <0.001). Also, students who knew any person who had pursued community medicine as specialization, had significantly more chance of knowing about the subject before admission to MBBS.Conclusions: The medical discipline of community medicine is yet to gain familiarity among students. Community medicine specialists should come forward to address the issue and popularize the discipline as a component of medical curriculum and highlight their role in front of general population as well.

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Perception and awareness of first year MBBS students about the subject community medicine

Gupta

Kishore²

2022

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Working in preventive medicine or not? Flawed perceptions decrease chance of retaining students for the profession

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Background Recruiting and retaining students in preventive medical (PM) specialties has never been easy; one main challenge is how to select appropriate students with proper motivation. Understanding how students perceive PM practice differently from practicing doctors is necessary to guide students, especially for those for whom PM is only a substitute for medicine as their first study preference, properly during their study and, later, the practice of PM. Methods One thousand three hundred eighty-six PM students in four Vietnamese medical schools and 101 PM doctors filled out a questionnaire about the relevance of 44 characteristics of working in PM. ANOVAs were conducted to define the relationship between students’ interest, year of study, willingness to work in PM, and the degree to which students had realistic perceptions of PM practice, compared to doctors’ perceptions. Results Overall, compared to doctors’ perceptions, students overestimated the importance of most of the investigated PM practice’s characteristics. Moreover, students’ perception related to their preference and willing to pursue a career in PM after graduation. In particular, students for whom PM was their first choice had more realistic perceptions of community practice than those who chose PM as their second choice. And, second-choice students had more realistic perceptions than first-choice students in their final years of study, but expected higher work stress in PM practice. Students who were willing to pursue a career in PM rated the importance of community practice higher than those who were not. We also found that students’ perception changed during training as senior students had more realistic perceptions of clinical aspects and working stress than junior students, even though they overemphasized the importance of the community aspects of PM practice. Conclusions To increase the number of students actually entering the PM field after graduation, the flawed perceptions of students about the real working environment of PM doctors should be addressed through vocation-oriented activities in the curriculum targeted on groups of students who are most likely to have unrealistic perceptions. Our findings also have implications for other less attractive primary health care specialties that experience problems with recruiting and retaining students.

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Assessment of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Capabilities to Provide Preventive Care: a Cross- Sectional Study in Casablanca, Morocco

Fatima-Ezzahraa¹,

Bouaddi

Ghita³

et al. 2023

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Background: Eighty percent of deaths in Morocco are attributable to Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the estimated shortage in Moroccan healthcare workforce is below the WHO recommended limit. It is therefore crucial to prepare future physicians to meet national health priorities and respond to the high burden of NCDs. Our aim was to evaluate the perceptions of medical students on prevention and the areas of preventive medicine. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 5th year medical students at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Casablanca. Participants were invited to complete an anonymous pre-tested, self-administered questionnaire at the end of the 2020/2021 academic year. A hundred and twenty-three 5th year medical students were included in the study. Results: Fifty-five percent of students considered their knowledge in the field prevention to be average and 38% considered it to be insufficient. Around 70% of students felt that their knowledge about hypertension screening and the prevention of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) was good. However, 68% of participants felt that their knowledge about family planning was poor. Furthermore, 95% of the students declared having a high interest in prevention and 76% consider it to be very important in the training of general practitioners. However, only 52% felt capable of providing prevention advice to their patients. Conclusions: Our study revealed the need for more in-depth investigations regarding prevention in medical education and highlighted the need to strengthen medical students’ knowledge and capabilities in delivering preventive services to their patients.

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Effectiveness of preventive medicine education and its determinants among medical students in Malaysia

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Perception and awareness of first year MBBS students about the subject community medicine

Perception and awareness of first year MBBS students about the subject community medicine

Working in preventive medicine or not? Flawed perceptions decrease chance of retaining students for the profession

Assessment of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Capabilities to Provide Preventive Care: a Cross- Sectional Study in Casablanca, Morocco

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