Poster Presentation as an Education tool: Use, Views and Reviews from Undergraduate Medical students

Abstract

Introduction: Medical education has entered its modern era in our country with the new NMC devised Competency Based Curriculum de-emphasizing autocratic teaching techniques and in turn replacing them with continuous stress upon critical thinking, parallel reading, creative expression and information evaluation.

Aims & Objectives: 1. To study the use of Poster Presentation as an Educational Tool from UG Medical Students.

1. To study the views of Poster Presentation as an Educational Tool from UG Medical Students.
2. To study the reviews of Poster Presentation as an Educational Tool from UG Medical Students.

Material and Methods: The methodology of this research is based on ADDIE model, which is used for analyzing, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating (20). At the analysis stage, literature review and document analysis were conducted to see the effectiveness of poster presentation as an innovative teaching and learning technique.

Result: The average response recorded on Likert scale was of 4.21 (± 0.65); Cronbach’s alpha for the set of questions asked was found to be 0.914 depicting excellent internal consistency and showing that the data is very much reliable.

Conclusion: The academic poster competition is a teaching and learning initiative in the pandemic phase. It was implemented through online learning that has been proven to be effective in improving students' knowledge and soft skills.