Assessing medical students' perception of effective teaching and learning in Nigerian medical school

Abstract

Background: Medical education is always in a state of dynamic equilibrium with continuous evolution of new techniques in teaching and learning.

Objectives: Objective of this study is to determine medical students' perception on preferences of teaching and learning.

Participants: A total of 207 medical students participated in the study. Most (73.9%) of them were males while the modal age group was 23-25 years. Majority (57.5%) of the students belong the middle socioeconomic class and 65.7% resided within the hostel.

Results: Majority of the students (48.8%) believe two hours is enough to per lecture. Among the five different teaching-learning methods investigated, use of multimedia methods was found to be most effective. There exist a statistically significant association was found only in gender with regular oral examinations (Χ2 = 4.5, df = 1, p = 0.03) and socioeconomic class with dictation of lecture notes (Χ2 = 17.9, df = 9, p = 0.03).

Conclusion: The present day medical student will end up as a good clinician if modern techniques of teaching and communication skills of the lecturers are adopted.