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Abstract

Needs Assessment of the Undergraduate Medical Students to Incorporate Courses on Medical Education into the Undergraduate Curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University

Enas Mohamed Gouda, Wagdy Talaat Youssef, Adel Morshedy Hamam and Manal Said Fawzy

Aim: This study aimed to incorporate courses in medical education into the undergraduate medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University based on students needs for better learning.

Methodology: a descriptive study was held to assess the need to incorporate medical education related courses into the undergraduate medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University. The study was conducted for the undergraduate medical students’ year 2009/2010.

A self administered anonymous questionnaire was designed to identify students’ need to incorporate Medical Education courses into the undergraduate curriculum.
Results: The majority of the studied students were in favor of studying the suggested courses especially time management, clinical communication skills and medical ethics (85.28%, 84.85% and 82.25%, respectively). Fifty eight percent of studied students needed to study medical education themes as integrated courses. Most of them (72%) needed these courses to be elective one and (70%) needed to be taught horizontally in one phase.

Conclusion: It is important for undergraduate students to acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes concerning their learning processes and some of the principles of medical education, especially in a faculty that adopts innovative educational strategies like FOM-SCU. It showed that the students themselves were interested in receiving these principles.