Saurabh Shrivastava

Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed University) · Department of Community Medicine

Background Peer teaching is a well-acknowledged method to facilitate teaching and learning among medical students. The objective of the study was to assess the merits and effectiveness of peer teaching in small groups using a student-centered approach through the employment of different learning media. Methodology This was a cross-sectional descrip...

Healthcare professionals are expected to perform a wide range of activities and excel in teaching, patient care, research, and administration. Research is one of the key domains of medical teachers. However, financial support in the form of research grants is essential to conduct quality research work. The present chapter will give an overview of t...

The process of transforming a freshly joined medical student into a competent medical graduate is a complex one. It is an indisputable fact that having good knowledge (cognitive domain) is crucial for better performance in psychomotor and affective domains. In the global vision to improve health-care delivery, it is crucial that medical students ar...

The introduction of competency-based medical education has brought about a paradigm shift in the delivery of medical education in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. A portfolio can be regarded as an instrument that can be employed for the storage of learning on a day-to-day basis and for recording the self-reflection by the students. As a...

The syllabus in the medical curriculum is extremely vast, and in order to attain the intended learning competencies, students have to take intensive efforts to continue or expedite the learning process. Learning in itself is a complex process, as a number of factors play their part to ensure that a medical student can understand and apply the conce...

Technology has found its root and application in all sectors, and the same stands true in the field of medical education. Moreover, with the emergence of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic, the use of technology in online teaching-learning and assessment has increased immensely. The purpose of the current review is to explore the utility of gami...

The process of medical education delivery has evolved constantly considering the rapid progress in the field of medical sciences, and the varied roles expected of a health-care professional. The current review has been done to explore the role of virtual reality in medical education, and to identify the potential challenges and the suggestions that...

The ongoing coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to be a public health emergency of global concern. The findings of the studies have reported that owing to the pandemic, the delivery of essential and emergency sexual and reproductive health-care services has been significantly jeopardized. This has resulted in a considerable rise...

The kind and range of attributes that an undergraduate medical student should acquire by the time of completion of their training are extensive. The exposure of undergraduate medical students to the local community during the training period carries immense significance in the learning curve of the students. The exposure to community as a learning...

The global trends reveal that the currently available estimates of obesity have become almost three times when compared with the estimates in the year 1975. Even children have not been spared of this threat and close to 39 million children in the under-5 age group were overweight or obese. Even though a wide range of factors determines the prevalen...

Program evaluation is a must for medical education programs and requires the involvement of all the concerned stakeholders. It is important to note that the general aim behind any educational program is to look for a change, and thus, program evaluation should look to identify whether the change has occurred or not. In fact, a systematically perfor...

Clinical teaching does not limit to teaching alone, rather it actually deals with the process wherein students are supported in their learning process while interacting with real patients during clinical settings. The purpose of the current review was to explore the factors that impact clinical teaching and then propose the potential recommendation...

Learning is a complex process and refers to the acquisition of new knowledge, comprehension, skills, attitude, behaviors, values, and preferences. Learning theories have been proposed to explain how students receive, process, and retain knowledge. These theories differ from each other based on the underlying principles. Being medical educators, we...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most frequent, preventable, and manageable lung diseases that results due to the narrowing of small airways. Owing to the tiredness and breathlessness linked to the disease, the individuals fail to work to their potential in both workplace and home settings, and thus, it poses a financial l...

Medicine continues to change with each day, and it becomes the responsibility of the medical students, medical teachers, and practicing doctors to stay abreast with the recent developments and thereby use the same in patient care. There arises the need to encourage medical professionals to be lifelong learners and keep moving forward in the journey...

Background The global population is being plagued by several diseases and health conditions, and this calls for the need to adopt a strategy to enable people from all socioeconomic backgrounds to have the freedom and choice to opt for a medical profession as their career. The purpose of the current review is to explore the reasons which make medica...

The ongoing coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can be acknowledged as one of the most significant public health emergencies the world has encountered in the last few decades. The purpose of the current review is to understand the significance of contact tracing and explore the pros and cons of digital contact tracing in ensuring better co...

The ongoing coronavirus disease – 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the dynamics of all sectors and has significantly impacted the functioning of the healthcare delivery system. The purpose of the current review was to explore the significance of gatherings in COVID-19 outbreaks and the strategies to be implemented prior to organize a gathering...

Owing to the rapid advancements in the field of medicine, it is a major challenge for the medical educators to prepare the medical students to be ready and competent in their future clinical practice. It is a must that the medical students should not only be knowledgeable and skilled but also acquire the trait of being a lifelong learner. The adopt...

The medical knowledge is extremely vast and continues to advance with each day making it extremely challenging for medical students. One of the innovative teaching-learning methods has been the use of comics in the field of delivering medical education and for improving patient care. The utility of comics in the delivery of medical education can be...

Background A medical teacher has a very complex job profile, wherein they are expected to train a cohort of newly joined medical aspirants to competent health care professionals. The current study was conducted to identify the challenges faced by the faculty members in medical teaching and to assess the perception of teachers on the role of medical...

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to claim lives of the infected people and disrupt the routine functioning of all domains of lives. The development of a vaccine seems the only major tool which can prevent the acquisition of cases and bring an end to the pandemic. As on 11 November 2021, eight different vaccine manufacturer...

The ultimate goal of medical education across heterogeneous settings is to produce a competent medical graduate. It is important to remember that this vision cannot be complete without incorporating observation, assessment, and documentation of the students' performance while they are involved in patient care throughout the duration of the course....

The field of medicine is advancing with each day and therefore the process of producing a competent medical professional becomes a significant one. The findings of multiple studies have revealed that a significant proportion of medical students are using their phones for the purpose of acquisition of knowledge and information and that too whenever...

The branch of medicine is dynamic and keeps changing with each day, and thus, it is a big responsibility of the teachers to train medical students to fulfill the roles expected of them. The current review was carried out to understand the role of movies in medical education and the working model that can be adopted for its smooth integration within...

The study of medicine poses an immense burden on the medical students to become competent in all the core competencies. Medical students understand the learning requirements of their peers and thus senior students or peers can significantly help to achieve learning outcomes. Peer-assisted learning has been implemented in both undergraduate and post...

In the global vision to promote, safeguard, and maintain the health and safety of the general population and to meet the recommended standards of quality of healthcare offered, it is a must to assess the performance of medical students during their period of training. In the conventional form of medical education, assessment has predominantly been...

In the current setup, the delivery of medical education primarily targets the scientific and technical domain with minimal consideration about the humanity aspect. The training offered to the medical students as a part of humanity helps them to acquire the skills to make ethical decisions, keeping the interests of the patients, family members, and...

The emergence of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the dynamics of almost everything across the globe. The available evidence and the reported trends suggest that the COVID-19 infection among children and adolescents generally manifests in the form of less severe illness and has less incidence of mortality as compared wit...

Medical professionalism refers to a set of values or behaviors, which eventually establishes the trust that the general population has on healthcare professionals. It will not be wrong to document that conventional assessment tools were not able to assess the complex domains of professionalism. Workplace-based assessment tools have been identified...

Feminism can be acknowledged as a kind of movement to bring about an end to sexism, sexist exploitation, and domination of the male gender. The necessity to bring about an improvement in the health and well-being of women originated 4–5 decades ago, owing to the rising awareness about gender bias in a male-dominated medical community. This means th...

Pregnancy is a physiological condition and is expected to bring joy to the lives of individuals and their family. The available global estimates suggest that almost 50% of the reported pregnancies around the world are unintended. We must note that unintended pregnancies pose a major health risk to women, including a higher risk of maternal deaths,...

Gender-based violence refers to all forms of detrimental actions to target a single person or a group of them depending on their gender. This predominantly includes violence directed against women and includes all forms of violence (in the real world to online violence). We must understand and accept that even though these incidents are happening i...

The training imparted to medical students is quite vast and complex, and a lot is expected from them at the end of the overall training. Considering that each student differs from another, it is important to understand that a number of approaches should be adopted to ensure that they continue to learn. Feedback is an integral component of the medic...

Assessment is a crucial part of the medical curriculum and is present throughout the duration of undergraduate training. Assessments should be planned in such a way that something should always be at stake (means the consequence of the assessment). Conducting assessments without keeping anything at stake makes the students adopt a casual approach t...

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), refer to a group of diseases that are predominantly reported in tropical and subtropical regions of the globe. Considering that a number of diseases together constitute NTDs, their epidemiology is quite complex and a wide range of environmental attributes play their part in the causation and progression of the di...

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created a sense of emergency among the public health authorities and the general population across the world. The present review has been carried out to explore the introduction of pandemic module in the undergraduate medical training period in India. An extensive search of all materials related...

The branch of medicine is extremely challenging as health-care professionals deal with the lives of humans and the very fact that each patient is different from another. Most of the regulatory bodies governing the delivery of medical education across the globe expect that upon the completion of undergraduate training, a graduate student should atta...

The manner in which a doctor approach patient care significantly depends on the way in which they were trained during their undergraduation period. The purpose of the current review is to explore the necessity to incorporate One Health competencies in the medical curriculum and devise a framework for the same. An extensive search of all materials r...

Meningitis is a life-threatening and incapacitating condition that has been associated with significant amounts of fear, predominantly because of the high case fatality rate. Meningitis is one of the vaccine-preventable diseases, nevertheless, we significantly lack in our efforts directed toward the containment of the infection when compared with o...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the dynamics of health care once for all, and we have to continue to mount an unprecedented response to eventually defeat the novel virus pandemic. A wide range of neurological manifestations have been reported among pediatric and adult patients with COVID-19 infection both during and aft...

The process of transforming young students into competent medical graduates is a challenging one, wherein as teachers, we have to adopt a combination of innovative and traditional teaching-learning approaches to meet the needs of different types of learners. In the current era, the majority of teachers and medical students has access to the Interne...

The journey of medical training is long and comes with an immense amount of financial and emotional stress to both the medical student and their family members. In order to avert all such untoward consequences and to minimize the financial load, it is essential that a right candidate with apt intellectual capabilities and personality should prefera...

Marburg virus disease is a severe viral disease that is often associated with high mortality. The outbreak of the fatal hemorrhagic disease has been reported for the first time in Ghana in 2022, wherein two cases of the disease were reported in hospitals. The World Health Organization has strengthened its ongoing activities by alerting the neighbor...

The knowledge and skills expected of medical graduates upon completion of their undergraduate training are extremely vast and dynamic. Medicine has to be acknowledged as a combination of science and art, with science appealing to the scientific minds, while art encourages creativity and curiosity. The use of theater in medical education is not new...

Over the past couple of decades, medical education has transformed extensively and a number of curricular reforms have been introduced. Lectures have been regarded as one of the teaching–learning methods, which have been with us for decades together, and have been adopted as one of the key strategies by the teachers to pass knowledge to students. I...

The curriculum delivered to medical students as a part of their training program has to be multi-faceted, dynamic and should have the component of quality assurance and continuous quality improvement to ensure that competent medical graduates are produced. This review has been carried out to understand the necessity, acknowledge the presence of bar...

The employment of computers for facilitating learning in the field of medicine is a known identity. The purpose of the current review is to explore the role of computer-based assessment in medical education and the potential challenges and strategies that need to be adopted to overcome them. An extensive search of all materials related to the topic...

Clinical teaching in medicine plays an important role in the making of a competent and skilled health care professional. It is a fact that owing to the recent rise in the burden on the health system because of an augmented rise in the number of patients visiting hospitals, including tertiary medical colleges, the time for clinical teaching has sign...