How the students’ scientific activity and practical skills training effect on their learning of traumatology and orthopedics

Abstract

During the last years the state of education in the country was significantly diminished that cause the urgent necessity to search for improvements, particularly for traumatology and orthopaedic, as the rate of civil and war injuries have been increased significantly. Among the variety of well-known factors that are effecting the learning process we chose scientific and practical skills training activities, as not so much information is found in the available Ukrainian and foreign literature. 

Objective of the study was to analyze how the different types of additional scientific and practical students’ activity effect on the educational process in traumatology and orthopedics.

Methods. We assessed the positive effect of additional scientific activity on the students’ education according to 5 point system by analyzing their scores before and after they had been involved in it. During last 10 years there were 17 students (11 foreign and 6 Ukrainian) on the Traumatology and Orthopedics department that prepared 21 publications (8 articles and 13 reports on scientific conferences with abstracts publication).

Results. The average students’ score for first 4 classes was 4.58 and for the last 4 classes it was 4.83. That indicates the positive effect of scientific activity on the student educations on Traumatology and Orthopedics, as students were making the research on the topics that they studied on the classes, but on the more deep level. Students were analyzing scientific papers on the subject of their research and they saw the practical application of their theoretical knowledge that had helped to develop clinically oriented way of thinking and inspired on further studying.

Conclusions. The study showed that adding scientific activity additionally to the approved educational program is boosting educational process for medical students during Traumatology and Orthopaedics practical classes, seminars and lectures. The similar effect we noticed for students which were taking part in practical skills trainings. Both for teachers and students such activity requires more time and efforts, so it can’t be used for students with low learning motivation.