Assessment of Knowledge in Concepts Related To Cardiovascular Physiology Among Biomedical Engineering Students in Chennai

Abstract: Nullifying the misconceptions related to Scientific Phenomena that eventually creeps into intellect of the student population is a major purpose of efficient Medical Education and Research. This is a necessary expectation of Higher education as alternative conception breeds more incongruence in understanding and would generate more misalignment. This means that a student’s aberrant conceptions would hinder effective concept learning and application in the future. This study is related to the realms of Medical Education for Biomedical Engineering students and it aims to assess the knowledge base in concepts related to cardiovascular physiology and to decipher the aberrant understandings if any related, to the intricate facets of the faculty of Cardiovascular Physiology among Biomedical Engineering students. The study was conducted in an Engineering College and the study group was 100 Biomedical Engineering Students. Assessment of the aberrant understandings if any is accomplished by a carefully designed questionnaire and the assessment is by both Pre and Post- Intervention modules; the intervention being a conceptual lecture by a physiologist designed to explain the various ramifications of the statements furnished in the questionnaire. The questionnaire was anchored amidst three different domains of Cardiovascular Physiology in concepts related to Hematology, Circulation and Vascular physiology