International Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Author(s): Shruti Bhavi Patil

Abstract: Maternal care is a primary health indicator. A good obstetric examination will segregate the high risk pregnant women and help in appropriate management and care. Hence we took up this study to assess the performance of antenatal check up by MBBS phase III students using MINI-CEX which is an assessment tool in curriculum based medical education (CBME) and to assess the perception of students and faculty towards using MINI-CEX. An experimental study done on 30 final year MBBS students and 5 faculty of Gadag Institute of Medical College in a bedside setting. The faculty were asked to conduct MINI-CEX in a real time setting and complete the scaling. They were asked to feedback the students in the sandwich technique. The perceptions of students and faculty were evaluated by a prevalidated questionnaire in four aspects of reaction, learning, transfer, results. Most of the students and faculty more than 60% agreed that MINI-CEX will bring about improvement in history taking, clinical examination, humanistic skills and also clinical judgement making. Most of the faculty agreed and strongly agreed that MINI-CEX identifies the problem area in the student and has room for the faculty to give feedback to improvise on those areas. MINI-CEX will enable students to diagnose antenatal cases correctly and identify high risk cases and helps in better development of the skill of examination and empathetic talking to the patients.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33545/gynae.2025.v9.i6e.1766

Pages: 1055-1059 | 162 Views | 76 Downloads

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