A survey on perception of homoeopathic undergraduate students towards learning environment in an Indian scenario

• DOI: 10.51910/ijhdr.v12i43.633
• Publication Date: 2021-12-03T07:28:30Z
• Authors: Subhranil Saha; Munmun Koley; Aloke Ghosh; Ramkumar Mondal; Jogendra Singh Arya; Gurudev Choubey
• Keywords: West bengal

Background and aims – This research was an attempt to understand the views of students homoeopathic undergraduate schools in West Bengal, India identify areas strength weakness learning environment.
 Methodology An institutional, cross-sectional, observational study carried out involving 430 May, 2013 two Government medical colleges India. A seven-item close-ended questionnaire with four point Likert scale used determine students’ perceptions environment, intellectual climate teacher-student relationship schools. The generated seven subscales flexibility, student interaction, emotional climate, supportiveness, meaningful experience, organization, breadth interest.
 Results 46.5% belonged rural Bengali mother tongue 93.7% students. 39.5% preferred as medium instruction group preferable 77.9% 47.7% were dissatisfied teaching process 79.8% use multimedia over conventional classroom teaching. Flexibility remained low (mean=1.9, SD=0.9); experience (theoretical teaching) score high (mean=2.6, SD=0.9). Scores did not vary significantly (P>0.05) across pre-clinical clinical students, but few produced significant differences individually among different years. Internal consistency scores questionable (Cronbach’s α 0.310-0.446); however, showed acceptable test-retest reliability (Cohen’s κ 0.680-0.838).
 Conclusions emphasized requiring improvement school environment based on perspective. Changes curriculum, faculty infrastructure should be planned improve satisfaction.