Evaluation of Impact of Existing Extra Curricular Activities at Undergraduate Medical and Dental Education in Bangladesh

Authors

  • Md Humayun Kabir Talukder Associate Professor, Centre for Medical Education (CME), Mohakhali, Dhaka.
  • Mohammad Faruque Associate Professor, Dentistry, Dhaka Dental College, Dhaka
  • Kazi Khairul Alam Lecturer, Centre for Medical Education, Dhaka.
  • Tahmina Nargis Lecturer, Centre for Medical Education, Dhaka
  • Syed Md Akram Hussain Professor and Chairman, Department of Oncology, BSMMU.
  • Md Zakir Hossain Research Assistant, Centre for Medical Education, Dhaka
  • Rumana Nazneen Assistant Prof, OBGYN, HFRCMC
  • Md Zubaidur Rahman Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine, OSD, DGHS, Dhaka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/bmj.v37i1.3600

Keywords:

Extracurricular activities, Evaluation, Impact

Abstract

With an objective to evaluate the impact of existing extracurricular activities at undergraduate medical and dental education in Bangladesh this descriptive study was designed and collected information conveniently from 515 students and 155 teachers from randomly selected medical and dental colleges of the country. The respondents (100%) supported more than one extracurricular activity for the medical and dental students. More than 65% were in favor of games, sports and cultural functions. Some students clubs are also popular among the respondents but only 10.8% respondents supported student politics. The respondents who were against student politics viewed that it hamper educational activities and disciplines in their institutes. About half the respondents (48.8%) were unsatisfied with the present academic activities in their medical colleges. Respondents advised to develop infrastructures, accommodation facilities, teaching aids, libraries, administrative supervisory in the institutes. They also demand more trained teachers, good students-teachers relationship to raise standard of the medical and dental colleges to a satisfactory level.

Key words: Extracurricular activities, Evaluation, Impact.  

DOI: 10.3329/bmj.v37i1.3600

Bangladesh Medical Journal 37(1) 2008 6-9

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Talukder, M. H. K., Faruque, M., Alam, K. K., Nargis, T., Hussain, S. M. A., Hossain, M. Z., Nazneen, R., & Rahman, M. Z. (2009). Evaluation of Impact of Existing Extra Curricular Activities at Undergraduate Medical and Dental Education in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Medical Journal, 37(1), 6–9. https://doi.org/10.3329/bmj.v37i1.3600

Issue

Vol. 37 No. 1 (2008)

Section

Original Articles