Feedback of final year medical students lectures by paediatrician at a Government Medical College of Karachi.

OBJECTIVE

To assess the feedback of final year medical students on paediatric lectures delivered over a year.

METHODS

The descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted at Karachi Medical Dental College, Abbassi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi, and comprised final year medical students who were exposed to the scheduled lectures in paediatrics from April 2016 to May 2017. After the completion of the designated lectures, an evaluation of the lectures was done by the students who rated the lecture(s) on whether the lectures were clear, interesting, easy to take notes from, thought-provoking and relevant to the course. The evaluation was done anonymously on pre designed evaluation forms which were collected by volunteer third year medical students. Data was analysed and expressed as frequencies and percentages.

RESULTS

Of the 212 students, 112(52.8%) agreed strongly that the lectures were clear, 50(33%) found them interesting, 56(26.4%) said the lectures were easy to take notes from, for 58(27.3%) the lectures were thought-provoking, and 118(55.6%) found them relevant to the course.

CONCLUSIONS

Majority of the students agreed that the lecture was clear and relevant to the course, but the lectures were generally not found to be easy to take notes from.