How Co-Medical Students Satisfaction Factors Affect Their Learning and Academic Achievements

Abstract

Introduction: Co-medical courses of undergraduate programmes in Japan are expected to employ active learning methodologies.The purpose of this study is to investigate students' satisfaction with the various aspects of active learning and the effectiveness of active learning methods on students' learning outcomes.Method: A survey to measure students' views on an instructor's support, group work, and the contents of a lecture was given to 60 co-medical students. A list of 16 elements in the three categories were explored. Correlation between the 16 elements of the survey and the results of students' term exam was analysed.Results: The average scores range from 3.80 to 4.69 (scale 1-5), which shows the students are satisfied with the active-learning oriented lectures. Presentation skills, understanding diseases, self-study and self-confidence in co-medical activities wear found to be effective, according to the analysis of the correlation between the surrey results and the term exam results.Discussion: the results confirmed that the active learning methods are effective on understanding diseases for the students. This study has also shown that active learning methods employed by a lecturer had the positive impact on students' attitudes towards self-study activities.