Open AccessATTITUDE, BEHAVIOURAL IMPROVEMENT AND PREFERENCES
Author(s) -
Muhammad Qasim Memon,
Naseer Ahmed Shaikh,
Muhammad Saad Memon
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.01.1421
Subject(s) - attendance , proxy (statistics) , medicine , cheating , demography , family medicine , psychology , social psychology , machine learning , sociology , computer science , economics , economic growth
Objective: Present study endeavoured to assess medical student’s ethicalbehaviour, preferences and improvements one year later. Design of study: Cross-sectional,questionnaire-based. Setting: Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences Jamshoro.Sindh. Pakistan. Period: October 2013 - Jan 2014. Materials and methods: First year (FY) andsecond year (SY) MBBS students (n = 122 each year) of both genders, were randomly selectedand a questionnaire administered. Results: Fifty six percent male and 40% female studentsof FY marked proxy attendance; 72% males and 65% female would mark proxy attendance ifgiven a chance. Percentages increased in SY. Significant co-relation existed between genderand proxy attendance (p = 0.01); self-financed or hostlers showed no association withmarking proxy attendance. Sense of responsibility in females and courteous behavior in bothgenders improved in SY. Teacher’s behaviour affected student’s conduct; and improvementin understanding English was noted in both genders in both years, however, the small % ofstudents finding English as a barrier were prone to mark proxy attendance (p = 0.05). Malespreferred physiology whereas female preferred anatomy in both years. In FY, subject of choicewas anatomy, substituted for Physiology in SY. Majority students preferred chalk and black boardvs. multimedia based teaching. Conclusions: Cheating behaviour and sense of responsibility,but civilised behaviour, did not improve after one year education.