Journal of Global Medical Education and Research

Healthcare workers face significant risks of job-related violence. Sustainable solutions for preventing violence against health care providers remain tough to find and difficult to implement. Violence causes immediate and often long-term disruption to interpersonal relationships, the organization of work and the overall working environment. The negative consequences of such widespread violence impact heavily on the delivery of healthcare services, which could include deterioration in the quality of care provided. In developing countries particularly, equal access to primary health care will be threatened if health workers, already a scarce resource, abandon their profession because of the threat of violence. This in turn can result in a reduction in health services available to the general population, and an increase in health costs.

Keywords: Violence against health care workers, Medical protection act, Communication skills.

Medical students are educated ininnumerable aspects of basic medicine, such as anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, haematology, immunology, genetics etc. However humanistic aspects of medicine have attracted attention in recent years and is recognised as a important aspect in medicine now. The cultivation of humanities courses, such as medical ethics, medical history, psychology, sociology, and medical history helps to prepare students for their transformation from medical students to skilful medical professionals. It’s importance is being increasingly recognised now all across the globe. Both Western and Indian medical colleges include a variety of medical humanistic classes for undergraduate students. Although education in medical humanistic has undergone many changes, it still requires improvement and educators also need to learn. Humanities will help young minds to become better human being and hence a better doctor. Medical humanity is increasingly being recognised as the soul of health education

Keywords: Medical education; Humanities, Undergraduate students, Ethics.

Operation theatres play an important role in medical students learning; it is a high pressure clinical setting and offers a unique learning environment at the workplace. Students directly observe the dynamic, stressful clinical settings which has a potential to impart indirect or soft skills to the young learners. Many studies have been done on operation rooms as a teaching environment and ‘theme based learning’. However, there is lack of standardisation among studies. This unique learning environment is also influenced by the work-place culture, among different specialities and different institutions. This article explores these various aspects of operating room learning and suggests ways to further improve them.

Keywords: Operation theatres; Learning; Theme based learning.

Background: Research is a pillar in garnering evidence in Health Sciences. It is important to impart clinical and research skills to students persuing medical and allied branches. Physiotherapy treatments are becoming evidenced based and there is a need to train Physiotherapy students in research studies. The study aims to evaluate the interest of Physiotherapy students in research activity as therapists and as academicians. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out at a Physiotherapy College affiliated to a Tertiary care Academic Institute. After obtaining ethical clearance from IEC of institute, UG students of Physiotherapy from I to IV B.P.Th were asked to respond to a locally developed self-administered questionnaire with 11 items related to research. Data was analyzed using Graph Pad version. Results: Total of 133 Physiotherapy students with mean age of 19.84 ± 2.14 completed the questionnaire. On being asked about interest in continuing research after graduation, 54.88% showed their interest while, 44.36% wanted to pursue an academic career. A majority of 96.24% showed clinical practice as important aspect of their training and only 3.75% considered research as their priority. Half of the students who were aware about research being part of their curriculum, 44.30% knew research as an integral part of academic career while 50.37% were not sure about its importance. On being asked about knowledge of publication, small percent were aware about its relevance. Conclusion: Although interest in research is present among students, measures should be taken to orient the students about research activities right from 1st B.P.Th and should be reflected in the curriculum.

Keywords: Physiotherapy students; Research; Undergraduate curriculum; Learning, Motivation.