Perception of Faculty of their Role as Medical Facilitator
Sobia Nawaz, Nadeem Razaq, Farrukh Sarfraz, Fahad Sarfraz, Muhammad Saif Ullah, Ayesha Masood
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: Over the past few
decades integrated curricula has been presented in undergraduate medical
education with an important point of producing competent doctors. In
conventional teaching basic science subjects are taught in separation and no
correlation exists between basic and clinical science subjects as well. British
Medical School has been criticized within the report “Tomorrow’s Doctors: Suggestions
on Undergraduate Medical Education”, for overburdening students with genuine
information and recommendations emphasized that medical course ought to promote
critical understanding of the core knowledge
Health professions education is highly demanding
and complex field. Integrated curriculum and modern instructional strategies
demands the role of medical facilitator be revamp. These perceptions can be
utilized to plan faculty development workshops to upgrade the mindfulness of
the faculty about their educational responsibilities and accomplish their
potential.
Objective: To explore
faculty perception regarding role of medical facilitator in a private sector
medical college
Material and Methods:
Study design: Quantitative cross sectional
Settings: Shahida Islam
Medical & Dental College Lodhran
Duration: Six months
i.e. July 2020 to December 2020
Data Collection procedure: It was quantitative cross sectional study conducted on a private sector
medical college. Pre validated questionnaire was used to measure the perception
of faculty members as facilitation of medical undergraduate students.
Results: A total number of 40 faculty members
filled the questionnaire. Eight items questionnaire was used after giving
consent from faculty members. In this study of 40 participants, 22 were males
and 18 were females. Regarding faculty perception of their roles as medical
facilitators 95% shown as information provider, 89% as role model, as resource
provider and facilitation in and outside the class both 88%, as leader 87%,
curriculum developer 86% and researcher as 82%. The data was analyzed using
SPSS version 24.
Conclusion: The role of medical facilitator has
extensive across the boundaries of information provider in facilitation of
medical undergraduate students. The faculty of medical college shown their
mindfulness about modern-day medical education and recognized the foremost
important part of a medical facilitator to be not as it were an information
provider but also an on-job role model and scholastic advisor to undergraduates.
Key words: facilitator, faculty, perception, role
model, medical