1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, GSL Medical College, Rajahmundry, A.P.
2Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, GSL Medical College, Rajahmundry, A.P.
*Corresponding author: Dr. Renu Sulakhe Assistant Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine GSL Medical College, Rajahmundry: 533296 Andhra Pradesh, Mobile: 7702358255 Email: renugollapalli@gmail.com
Online published on 4 July, 2016.
Creating awareness of educational research and receiving opinions on the existing trends.
A cross-sectional study was conducted on 70 faculty members working in GSL Medical College and Hospital, Rajahmundry. In this study the participants were given a preformed questionnaire regarding views on teaching methodology & educational research which was filled by them and the data collected was analyzed by Microsoft excel.
Majority of the participants in our study (92.1%) agreed that teaching learning methodology is a part of educational research. The next major reason being lack of knowledge of educational research (53.9%).60.3% of the participants thought that including technology can make medical teaching more interesting.
From this study we can conclude that opportunities along with institutional support is necessary to motivate the medical faculty in pursuing educational research.
Educational research, teaching learning methodology, medical curriculum
