Educational Development of Judishapur

Educational Development of Judishapur

Evaluation of Case–Based Teaching Method for Infectious Diseases Educational Course in Ahvaz Jaundishapur University of Medical Sciences

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Fatemeh Ahmadi 1
Roohangiz nashibi 2
1 Faculty member, Medical school, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
2 Academic member, infectious and tropical diseases research center Medical school, Ahvaz Jundishapur university of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Abstract
Considering every teaching wouldn’t Lead to learning and traditional Methods often Less resulted in deep Learning, we implemented case–based teaching method for educational common and practical Infectious diseases courses. Furthermore, diarrheal diseases are common and important and one of mortality causes in developing countries; moreover, their correct management is important,hence, these items were selected. This Interventional study was implemented for one group with 17 students and compared with another group with 21 students of conventional methods. For this comparison, twoOSCE and MCQ exams wereused. Data was analyzed by SPSS ver .16 software. In OSCE exam for case group with Independent T-Test P=0.026, Mean=12.73, and Standard deviation=2.15 in in comparison to Mean=11.02 and Standard deviation=2.33 in control group were observed.In MCQ exam with Mann-whitney test P=0.039, Mean=2.47, and Standard deviation=0.94 in case group were obtained in comparison with Mean=1.81 and standard deviation=1.03 in control group respectively(α= 0.05) that in two exams results were significant .Therefore, we recommended that this model would be helpful for teaching common and useful issues when time and logistics provided.
Keywords
Teaching method
Case Base teaching
Iran
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Educational Development of Judishapur
Volume 5, Issue 2
Summer 2014
Pages 88-92