ATTITUDE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS TOWARD TEACHING

Hawler Medical UniversityCollege of Medicine

Department: community

Prepared by: Tanya Muhammad Hawar Jarjees Hedi Hameed Hawreen Muhammad Sanaa Fouad Maryam Abdulwahid

Supervised by: Dr. Ali Shakir Dauod

(JBFM, PhD,MPH, MB.ChB)

Contents:

•Introduction•objectives •Subjects and method •Results•Discussion.•Conclusion& recommendation•Questions

•Choosing a specialty is a difficult decision for medical students

•There are many Incentives and factors that come together in different ways to result in the final decision

Concepts in choosing a specialty

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Academic medicine

• Is the branch of medicine followed by doctor who are engaged in a variety of scholarly activities. • There exists many dangerous possibilities for its expected future due to lack of leadership and innovation.

Teaching• Is the logical and strategic acts denoting interaction

between the teacher and the students.

• Teaching involves imparting verifiable facts and beliefs.

Objectives:

1. To find the most preferred specialty

2. To determine the level of interest of the students

regarding teaching in the future

3. To find factors that improve attitude of students

toward academic medicine.

Subjects and method

• Is a cross-sectional study .

• carried out at college of medicine/ HMU.

•It has been conducted from April to May 2013.

• Study population= 4th stage students.

•The responding rate= 76.3 % (113 out of 148)

Questionnaire

• Mainly designed to assess the most preferred specialty and attitude toward teaching.

• It was self administered and have been filled within 3 weeks period.

• Anonymity and confidentiality were preserved.

Composed of 3 main sections:

1. Socio demographic information

2. Choosing the preferred specialty and interest in teaching with giving reasons.

3. Determinant of factors improving interest in teaching among students.

The percentage of the most interested specialties among students

The percentage of preference of teaching among students

The preferred way of teaching

Typical reasons for teaching as a profession Were:

1. Interest in this job

2. Preference of dealing with students and interest in

their development.

3. Being better than other specialties.

4. No interest in dealing with patients.

5. Good income.

Typical reasons for teaching temporarily were:

1. For improvement of a special field.

2. For valuable experience.

3. Stepping to other social services.

Percentage of typical reasons for teaching dislike

Distribution of Perceived Factors to Improve the Interest of College Students' toward teaching

Interpretation of findings:

• The most preferred specialty is general surgeon

followed by internist and radiologist.

• Many students are undecided!

• Teaching is welcomed by (53.1%) of students!

• The reasons behind interest in teaching ?

• Why nearly half of students have no interest in

this field?

• The most common perceived factor to improve

teaching preference according to students.

• Comparison to other studies regarding:

1. the most preferred specialty.

2. level of interest in teaching.

Conclusion

1)General surgery is the most preferred specialty.

2) High interest in teaching among 4th stage students.

3) Enjoying the work and dealing with the young are the main

reasons for teaching

4) Disliking the job and being a physician were reasons not to

teach

5) Improve interest among students.

Recommendations

Further attempts for promoting and increasing awareness among students;

building an effective relationship between students and academic doctors beside the curriculum, training with workshops and seminars… longitudinal studies for evaluating effectiveness of student center learning