The SEA-ORCHID project (South East Asia Optimising Reproductive Child Health in Developing countries) initiated a survey among undergraduate medical students at five South-East Asia universities to ascertain their understanding of evidence-based practice, information seeking practices, access to Information Technology and evidencebased databases as well as their understanding of clinical practi...

OBJECTIVE To study medical students' views about the quality of the teaching they receive during their undergraduate training, especially in terms of the hidden curriculum. DESIGN Semistructured interviews with individual students. SETTING One medical school in the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS 36 undergraduate medical students, across all stages of their training, selected by random and q...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of tuberculosis awareness program amongst school students. METHODS This school-based interventional study was done on 135 secondary school students. They were randomly selected in field practice area of Urban Health Training Center (UHTC) of a private medical college in Pune city. Health awareness session on tuberculosis was conducted by...

Need for emphasizing teaching Psychiatry to undergraduate Medical students highlighted. Specific recommendations put forward by different bodies and groups reviewed. A questionnaire on the pattern of teaching Psychiatry was circulated among fifty undergraduate Medical students. Analysis of results revealed students in general are not satisfied with the present pattern. Several lacunae in the te...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate medical students' views on general practice based on their experiences in training, and to find out whether there were certain views associated with the intention to become a GP. METHODS A questionnaire, based on our earlier studies about GP working behaviour, was handed out to medical students in terms 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 11 of undergraduate s...