Program-Based Teaching and Learning To Increase Competency in Undergraduate Medical Students Using a Model of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program.

ABSTRACT: Teaching methods need continuous innovation to encourage undergraduate medical students to enhance their competency level and skills. Every undergraduate medical student should be able to discuss the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) and Direct Observed Treatment Short (DOTS) course recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The DOTS strategy was launched in 1992, with the objective of detecting at least 70% of new sputum-positive tuberculosis (TB) patients and curing at least 85% of such patients. The aim of this study was to improve the competency level of Undergraduate (UG) Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) students by teaching them the objectives of the RNTCP at a program implementation site in the medical college. The RNTCP could be consi

SUBMITTER: Mangayarkarasi V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6508908 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature