title: Study habits and attitude of medical students of basic sciences.
abstract: Study habits and attitude for learning of Basic Medical Sciences amongst 133 students of first and second year MBBS course were analyzed (through questionnaires). The study revealed that the most of the students desired to be physicians to serve the patient/society. They preferred to learn more through self study (48.0%) and lecture classes (43.0%), less through group discussion (8.0%) and PBL (1.0%). Only 5.0% use to surf the internet regularly for their study matter and 79.0% students had never consulted any medical journals.
authors: Department of Physiology, Nepal Medical College, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal. kistiz2003@yahoomail.com
authors: Kshitiz Upadhyay
authors: KU
authors: Dhungel
authors: Rajesh
authors: R
authors: Prajapati
authors: Tapas
authors: T
authors: Pramanik
authors: Arijit
authors: A
authors: Ghosh
authors: Paresh
authors: P
authors: Roychowdhury
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D009390:Nepal; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D012586:Science; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching; D017748:Time Management