Family Health Study and Presentation as a Comprehensive Teaching-Learning Method in Community Medicine for Medical Graduates

Against growing need of more interactive learning tools to impart comprehensive knowledge and discussion based training to medical students, present study aimed to test efficacy of family health study presentations when incorporated in academic curriculum.Acarefully chosen set of cross-sectional questionnaire was designed to get perception of participating students on the effectiveness, nature, advantages and future recommendation for including family health presentations in academics. Feedback is taken directly from undergraduate medical students as they are the true gainers from this learning tool. The feedback of participating students against questionnaire was clubbed in four categories of results namely improving the understanding of community medicine as a subject, acknowledging it as a non-burden interactive learning method, utility in skills enhancement and future prospects. There were five response options kept in the study – strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree and strongly disagree. Results of study as 75.5%, 65.92%, 72% and 80.7% responses were in favour of the positive aspects of family health presentation in the four categories of results. If neutral responses are also added to former positive responses – (19.26%, 9.62%, 20.7% and 12.5% respectively), overall non-negative response are 94.7%, 75.5%, 92.7% and 93.2% respectively. To conclude, results highlight that family health study presentations are meaningful activity and shows signs of being excellent learning methodology for medical coursework