Critical Appraisal of Research in Education Technology in Health Science Institutes of Central India.

2016-12-28T05-55-21Z
Source: National Journal of Integrated Research in Medicine
Suresh N Chari*, Shubhada Anant Gade**.
In todays era of evidence based medicine recent advances in medicine have been understood & adopted by all the disciplines of health sciences but the same is not true for the methods & strategies in medical education. Quality medical education provides quality improvement in healthcare & for quality medical education evidence has to be created by undertaking educational research. Methods: A questionnaire based study was designed for the teachers of the health science institutes of Nagpur & adjoining region based on the completion of education technology workshops, number of educational research projects undertaken & publications. Coordinators of the MEU were interviewed to get a larger picture. Results: 1. Three days Basic Course in education technology was completed by more than 85% medical teachers, 60-70% dentistry, 40-50%ayurved, 50% physiotherapy & homeopathy and 20-30% nursing teachers. 2. Advance course / fellowship in medical education was completed by less than 5% medical,2-3%dentistry & Physiotherapy& less than 1% ayurved & no nursing& homeopathy teachers. 3. Educational Research: less than 5% medical, 2-3% dentistry & physiotherapy, less than 1% ayurved & no one from nursing & homeopathy colleges have undertaken educational research projects. 4. Educational publication: 1-2 % medical, dentistry & physiotherapy teachers, & less than 1% ayurved & none from nursing & homeopathy colleges. 5. Reasons: time crunch: 70%, personal: 40%, administrative responsibility: 20%, support from higher authorities: 20%, priority to speciality subjects:10%, Poor salary structure for homeopathy teacher. Coordinators MEU blamed it to apathy. Conclusion: Mere attending workshops and conferences has not been able to generate interest about educational research in the teachers. [Suresh C NJIRM 2016; 7(6): 69-73]


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