Undergraduate Medical Students Perceptions Regarding Nutrition Education Curriculum at Shifa College of Medicine. | [Isra Medical Journal • 2017]

Author(s):

1. Sumreena Mansoor: Shifa College of Medicine, Pitras Bukhari Road, H-8/4, Islamabad, Pakistan

Abstract:

OBJECTIVE: To determine the students' perceptions of recently developed nutrition education curriculum for teaching of undergraduate medical students at Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, Pakistan. STUDY DESIGN: A discriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Study conducted at Shifa College of Medicine from 1st January 2014 till 30th April 2014 at College of medicine after taking IRB approval. METHODOLOGY: Metabolism and nutrition module of three weeks was planned and implemented for the pre-clinical students of undergraduate MBBS year-2. After 3 weeks module students views about the significance of nourishment as focus and impression of program was taken through questionnaire. Adequacy of Nutrition Education (Quantity and Quality) was collected through survey questionnaire. Students evaluated their perceptions about subject, teaching and subject's importance through a point scale (from 1 being strongly disagree to 5 being strongly agree). RESULTS: Total of 59% undergraduate medical students differ that protective wellbeing as a subject is boring. Regarding the satisfaction about the quantity of their metabolism and nourishment teaching 71% of undergraduates training doctors established that they are pleased with the teaching. About 75% undergraduate medical future doctors recommended that nourishment course should have had devoted specific time to the theme of nourishment (free from structure centered trainings). Around 56% of the scholars differed that undergraduate institute nourishment program should have topics officially integrated into the structured centered issues. CONCLUSION: Most of undergraduate medical students are interested in training of nutrition as subject. Thus it would be possible for us to emphasize the need of such an important theme for undergraduate training medical programmes for future doctors in Pakistan.

Page(s): 88-90

DOI: DOI not available

Published: Journal: Isra Medical Journal, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Year: 2017

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