Rural Internship Training Program: Evaluating effectiveness in perspective of developing primary health care physician - Couverture souple

Khapre, Meenakshi

 
9783639768985: Rural Internship Training Program: Evaluating effectiveness in perspective of developing primary health care physician
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639768981 ISBN 13 : 9783639768985
Editeur : Scholars' Press, 2015

Synopsis

The medical education and health care in India are facing serious challenges in need based content and competencies. Objective of internship is to train the medical graduates in application of theoretical aspects in hospital and community settings. Interns are expected to be the Primary care physician. Learning Environment make a difference in how the students learn and achieve their goals but constraint of resources in RHTC affects the learning process. Considering these aspects, the current study was conducted among interns of a Medical College, for assessing the environment favorable to learning and evaluating the effectiveness of rural internship training programme. It concluded that rural internship programme was effective in delivering the knowledge and skills to interns but it fails to motivate the interns to work in rural area in future. The poor physical infrastructure of rural centre was the main hurdle for avoiding the rural postings. It is recommended to strengthen rural health centre in terms of infrastructure. The teaching has to task oriented to arouse the interest and glamorize by incentives and good facility to motivate them to work in rural areas.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The medical education and health care in India are facing serious challenges in need based content and competencies. Objective of internship is to train the medical graduates in application of theoretical aspects in hospital and community settings. Interns are expected to be the Primary care physician. Learning Environment make a difference in how the students learn and achieve their goals but constraint of resources in RHTC affects the learning process. Considering these aspects, the current study was conducted among interns of a Medical College, for assessing the environment favorable to learning and evaluating the effectiveness of rural internship training programme. It concluded that rural internship programme was effective in delivering the knowledge and skills to interns but it fails to motivate the interns to work in rural area in future. The poor physical infrastructure of rural centre was the main hurdle for avoiding the rural postings. It is recommended to strengthen rural health centre in terms of infrastructure. The teaching has to task oriented to arouse the interest and glamorize by incentives and good facility to motivate them to work in rural areas.

Biographie de l'auteur

Author, Dr. Meenakshi Khapre, is working as Assistant Professor, in the Department of Community Medicine. She has done Basic Course in Medical education in 2010 and Advanced course in Health Profession Education Technology in year 2014. She has many research publications in National & International Journals.

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Éditeur
Scholars' Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639768981
ISBN 13 
9783639768985
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
88
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