CHANGING THE FORMAT OF LECTURE CLASSES FOR NEW GENERATION MEDICAL STUDENTS

Abstract

The aim of the work – to learn the use of students’ needs for updating the format of conducting lecture classes and possible ways of their implementation.

The main body. Challenges of modern time require training of new doctors as competent, mobile, and able to perfection and quick orientation in the scientific world and medicine. Change in generations of university teachers has led to failure of effectiveness of outmoded teaching approaches. It’s needed the renovation of university curricula and the implementation of interactive, more flexible approaches to learning and teaching. We conducted an anonymous questionnaire of 2139 students of 3–6 courses of medical faculties of O. Bohomolets National Medical University, that we were gave an opportunity to assess the attitude of our students to lectures.

In general, students highly appreciate the benefits of the lectures; most respondents believe that they receive and assimilate about 60 % of the educational materials from these lectures. Most of the students who took part in the survey expressed answer that oral lectures on clinical disciplines are needed, but are required significant changes in the format. The existing format of our lectures is satisfied by only 14 % of the interviewed students. They consider that common disadvantages of the existing format of lectures are the repetitions of information from textbooks or/and manuals and the lack of specific clinical typical cases.

Conclusions. Students consider the optimal format of lectures for clinical departments as follows: the total duration of the lecture should be 45 minutes and include 2 blocks for 20 minutes with a 5 minute break between them. Firstblock should contain up-to-date information about clinical features, diagnostics and treatment of diseases, the second block – the analysis of clinical cases with examples of the formulation of diagnosis, the plan of additional examinations and methods of treatment.