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Mahmoud Zardast1, Alireza Fereidouni2,3, Sanaz Golkari2
1Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Ghaffari Street, Birjand, South Khorasan Province Iran.
Abstract:
The medical curriculum consists of basic pre-clinical and clinical parts. Basic sciences are required for diagnostic and clinical reasoning but students do not have a positive attitude toward basic sciences, mostly because of the lack of clinical relevancy. Basic sciences have many applications in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a broad range of diseases but do not attract the attention of medical students. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of clinical experts' opinions on the attitude of medical students toward basic sciences, particularly immunology. The opinion of six clinical specialists in different fields was recorded in a video clip, presenting the application of basic sciences and immunology in their routine practice. The attitude of second-year medical students toward the basic science courses was evaluated by a questionnaire containing four ranking questions and one short answer. The video clip was streamed and after that, students were answering the same questions. In total, 188 students including 129 s-year students (M/F ratio: 0.92) and 59 third-year students M/F ratio: 0.90) participated in the study. For all ranking questions, the mean score was significantly increased after watching the interviews' film streaming. Before watching the video clip, only 14.9% of students considered immunology as an important course but after that, the percentage significantly increased to 58.5% (P < 0.001). The results of this study showed that knowing clinical specialists' opinions about basic sciences significantly improved the attitude of students toward basic science courses, in particular immunology.
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