introduction: in india, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficult to understand. often, it is taught just before final assessment examination using didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus on application. hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teaching biostatistics to medical undergraduate. methods: the sessions were delivered by...

BACKGROUND This study attempts to understand whether medical undergraduates in Sri Lanka would seek help for depression. This was done by examining their perceptions and intentions relating to seeking help for depression, using the responses of non-medical undergraduates as the baseline for comparison. METHOD Medical (n = 620) and non-medical undergraduates (n = 4050) at the University of Col...

world only promises more than it offers; Nature offers more and greater things than it promises" (p. 115) is baffling-but not if "yields" is substituted for "offers" (the Latin is "praestat"); then we learn that the world-that world which in Wordsworth's words "is too much with us; getting and spending, we lay waste our powers"-comes up with less than it promises; but anatomy comes up with much...

Introduction: In India, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficultto understand. Often, it is taught just before final assessment examinationusing didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus onapplication. Hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teachingbiostatistics to medical undergraduate.Methods: The sessions were delivered by a fa...

There is now a greater awareness among academics that teaching skills, like clinical and research skills, must be acquired and practised, usually over an extended period of time. In addition, teachers have a great responsibility in ensuring that medical students develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to become competent and effective doctors. Although teaching theory is comp...