Author Name : Firdous Jahan
1 Class Room to Real Life: Medical Students Perception and Barriers regarding Breaking Bad News
- Firdous Jahan* ,
- Muhammad A Siddiqui ,
- Zaid Mukhlif ,
- Heba Salim Ismail
- Abstract
- Show Article
- Download : 201
- Certificate
Abstract : The objective of this study was to assess the perception, skills and comfort level of medical students in clinical years regarding breaking bad news and perceived attainment of objectives in communication skills module. This is a survey using quasi-experimental (pre- /post-intervention) study design. All students in the final year at OMC, consented to participate were included in the study. Questionnaires were provided prior and post-workshop. The commonly used 6-point SPIKES protocol for breaking bad news was discussed. Questionnaire was mainly comprised of demographic details, pre and post ques¬tions, any previous training in communication skills, whether they had observed bad news being broken by a senior, how stressful they thought BBN was to them and SPIKES protocol, confidence levels among participants in communicating bad new and barriers of breaking bad news. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 20.v. Data were expressed in frequencies, mean and percent¬ages, t test and man Whitney U test were used to evaluate the significant differences between pre and post responses. A total of 70 medical students were participated in the study in which 60 (85.7%) were female participants. Significant statistical difference was observed between pre and post response of participants involving communicating bad news (p - 0.025). Similarly, there was a significant difference in the responses of participants aged <25 and ≥ 25 years responses regarding communicating bad news (p < 0.001). This study results revealed that at pre workshop, participants had statistically significantly (p-0.006, 95% CI -15.08-2.63) low pre-workshop score compared to post-workshop responses. Similarly, statistical difference was observed between age > 25 and <25 years old participants (p-0.027, 95% CI -1.19-19.13). No significant difference was found between male and female participant’s responses (p-0. 927, 95% CI -9.03-8.22).
Keyword : Medical students, breaking bad news, Perception and Barriers, Oman
2 Pre-Clinical Medical Students’ Perception regarding Patient Safety in Primary Care
- Firdous Jahan* ,
- Maryann Radiance Aguiar ,
- Diana Alshehabi ,
- Fatema Sadiq Mahdi
- Abstract
- Show Article
- Download : 187
- Google Citation
- Journal DOI : 10.46624/bjmhr.2018.v5.i10.002
- Certificate
Abstract : Patient safety is a new and challenging discipline in primary care. Medical students need to understand and demonstrate appropriate patient safety skills in professional education. Pre-clinical students at Oman Medical College (OMC) have clinical skills training in primary care as well as in the hospital. The present study aimed to seek pre-clinical medical students' perceptions of their individual performance at a range of safety skills. A cross sectional study conducted at OMC. Data was collected by self-administrated questionnaire to a simple random sample of 50 medical students in pre-clinical years after finishing Family Medicine rotation. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Most participants (88%) agreed the importance of patient safety. Self- rated general knowledge on patient safety on good level (72%) compared to (27%) for the specific knowledge issues score. In medical error management 75% willing to report medical errors, more than half willing to disclose error to patient and faculty and 89% agreed introducing patient safety topic in undergraduate medical schools curricula. Students had a favorable opinion of their own safety skills. However, specific knowledge question revealed some misconceptions. Most participants recognized the importance of patient safety topic in curriculum. Students are fair and honest to report medical errors. They considered competent physician don’t make errors.
Keyword : Patient safety, pre-clinical medical students, perception
3 New Face of Clinical Teaching and Learning: Social Media in Medical Education Use of WhatsApp among Medical Students in Clinical Teaching at Oman Medical College
- Firdous Jahan* ,
- Muhammad A Siddiqui ,
- Dr Zaid A Mukhlif ,
- Khulood Abdullah Al Kalbani ,
- Aya Issa Al Rawahi
- Abstract
- Show Article
- Download : 204
- Google Citation
- Journal DOI : 10.46624/bjmhr.2019.v6.i03.005
- Certificate
Abstract : ABSTRACT
Medical education has its core values of confidentiality and formal conduct while social media involved sharing and openness, connection which seems to be contradictory for medical professionalism. Main purpose of this study was to explore the students' perception, attitudes and barriers about the professional use of social media and to assess the experiences of undergraduate on the improvement of clinical teaching through the incorporation of social media applications. A cross sectional survey based study was carried out at Oman Medical College. All final year students consented to participate were included in the study. Data was collected on self-administered questionnaire in which core elements were divided – demographics, type and frequencies of different social media usage, student’s perception about WhatsApp utilization and barriers of not using social media. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0). Data were expressed in frequencies, mean and percentages. A total of 76 participants were enrolled in which 5 (6.6%) were male and 71 (93.4%) were aged between 20-25 years of age. Among all 57 (75%) were Omani nationals and almost all (98.7%) participants used social media of which 35 (46.1%) were android, 29 (38.2%) IOS, and 12 (15.8%) were other operating system users. All participants daily spend some time on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. In contrast, responses of all participants’ indicated that they never make use of Wiki, Chat On and hangout. More than half of the study participants believed that lack of internet access is one the main barrier of non-utilization of social media. Medical students prefer online media for communication and medical information along with usage of WhatsApp in medical education and learning is helpful for improving and enhancing the interactive learning. The students’ response emphasizes positive response and experiences of their learning and discussions provided an effective space for integrated small group clinical teaching and learning.
Keywords: Social media, medical education, WhatsApp, clinical teaching, learning
Keyword : Social media, medical education, WhatsApp, clinical teaching, learning
Login
Loading....
Author Guideline
Copyright Form
News Update
Archive List
- Volume-11
- Volume-10
- January 2023 Issue 1
- January 2023 Issue 1
- February 2023 Issue 2
- March 2023 Issue 3
- March 2023 Issue 3
- April 2023 Issue 4
- April 2023 Issue 4
- May 2023 Issue 5
- May 2023 Issue 5
- May 2023 Issue 5
- June 2023 Issue 6
- June 2023 Issue 6
- July 2023 Issue 7
- July 2023 Issue 7
- August 2023 Issue 8
- August 2023 Issue 8
- September 2023 Issue 9
- October 2023 Issue 10
- November 2023 Issue 11
- December 2023 Issue 12
- Volume-9
- January 2022 Issue 1
- February 2022 Issue 2
- March 2022 Issue 3
- April 2022 Issue 4
- May 2022 Issue 5
- June 2022 Issue 6
- July 2022 Issue 7
- July 2022 Issue 7
- July 2022 Issue 7
- July 2022 Issue 7
- August 2022 Issue 8
- September 2022 Issue 9
- October 2022 Issue 10
- October 2022 Issue 10
- November 2022 Issue 11
- November 2022 Issue 11
- November 2022 Issue 11
- December 2022 Issue 12
- Volume-8
- January 2021 Issue 1
- February 2021 Issue 2
- February 2021 Issue 2
- March 2021 Issue 3
- April 2021 Issue 4
- May 2021 Issue 5
- June 2021 Issue 6
- June 2021 Issue 6
- June 2021 Issue 6
- July 2021 Issue 7
- August 2021 Issue 8
- September 2021 Issue 9
- October 2021 Issue 10
- November 2021 Issue 11
- December 2021 Issue 12
- Volume-7
- January 2020 Issue 1
- January 2020 Issue 1
- February 2020 Issue 2
- March 2020 Issue 3
- March 2020 Issue 3
- March 2020 Issue 3
- April 2020 Issue 4
- April 2020 Issue 4
- May 2020 Issue 5
- May 2020 Issue 5
- May 2020 Issue 5
- June 2020 Issue 6
- June 2020 Issue 6
- June 2020 Issue 6
- July 2020 Issue 7
- August 2020 Issue 8
- September 2020 Issue 9
- October 2020 Issue 10
- November 2020 Issue 11
- December 2020 Issue 12
- December 2020 Issue 12
- Volume-6
- January 2019 Issue 1
- February 2019 Issue 2
- March 2019 Issue 3
- April 2019 Issue 4
- April 2019 Issue 4
- May 2019 Issue 5
- May 2019 Issue 5
- June 2019 Issue 6
- June 2019 Issue 6
- July 2019 Issue 7
- July 2019 Issue 7
- August 2019 Issue 8
- September 2019 Issue 9
- September 2019 Issue 9
- September 2019 Issue 9
- October 2019 Issue 10
- November 2019 Issue 11
- November 2019 Issue 11
- November 2019 Issue 11
- December 2019 Issue 12
- Volume-5
- January 2018 Issue 1
- January 2018 Issue 1
- February 2018 Issue 2
- March 2018 Issue 3
- April 2018 Issue 4
- May 2018 Issue 5
- June 2018 Issue 6
- July 2018 Issue 7
- August 2018 Issue 8
- September 2018 Issue 9
- September 2018 Issue 9
- October 2018 Issue 10
- October 2018 Issue 10
- November 2018 Issue 11
- December 2018 Issue 12
- December 2018 Issue 12
- Volume-4
- January 2017 Issue 1
- February 2017 Issue 2
- February 2017 Issue 2
- March 2017 Issue 3
- April 2017 Issue 4
- April 2017 Issue 4
- May 2017 Issue 5
- June 2017 Issue 6
- June 2017 Issue 6
- June 2017 Issue 6
- June 2017 Issue 6
- July 2017 Issue 7
- August 2017 Issue 8
- August 2017 Issue 8
- September 2017 Issue 9
- October 2017 Issue 10
- November 2017 Issue 11
- December 2017 Issue 12
- December 2017 Issue 12
- December 2017 Issue 12
- Volume-3
- January 2016 Issue 1
- February 2016 Issue 2
- March 2016 Issue 3
- April 2016 Issue 4
- May 2016 Issue 5
- June 2016 Issue 6
- June 2016 Issue 6
- July 2016 Issue 7
- July 2016 Issue 7
- July 2016 Issue 7
- August 2016 Issue 8
- September 2016 Issue 9
- October 2016 Issue 10
- October 2016 Issue 10
- November 2016 Issue 11
- November 2016 Issue 11
- December 2016 Issue 12
- Volume-2
- Volume-1
Statastics
Download of Articles
115,504