Authors : Prachi Dhurye, Dr. Sachin Gugawad, Hrutuja Deshpande, Dr. Shashikiran N. D, Dr. Namrata Gaonkar, Dr. Savita G. Hadakar, Dr. Swapnil M. Taur
Volume/Issue : Volume 4 - 2019, Issue 12 - December
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Aim:
To evaluate the effect of near-peer teaching
program of OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical
Examination) in dental students.
Introduction:
Throughout centuries, teaching has been a
concrete base for learning and persuading education.
Technology lead to the use of projectors along with
chalk and board, although “Peer Teaching” method has
been used for decades it was not until recently
considered as a standard method of teaching. Using
peer teaching as a method of teaching and OSCE as a
method for evaluation can prove to be more beneficial
to the learners as well as to the educators, thus
improving their skills.
Methodology:
The sample size were 80 students out of which 40
third-year undergraduate dental students were taught
by 40 near peer teachers i.e. the final-year
undergraduate students by one to one interaction that is
in the ratio 1:1 for implementation on OSCE.
Results:
The results found in the study after evaluating 15
questions were more promotive towards implementing
near peer teaching as a teaching modality for OSCE.
Discussion:
Our study encourages new interactive teaching
method where every student was given enough
importance which improves the communication,
reduces the fear and anxiety experienced by the
students when approaching the staff for the clarification
of doubts. The comparison along with other studies
could be definitively evaluated.
Conclusion:
Through our results, we can conclude that though
conventional teaching and examination are the most
commonly employed methods, teaching by a near peer
teacher along with implementation of one to one
interaction and evaluation of the practical skills by the
method of OSCE can improvise and give much better
results.