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Students' evaluation and satisfaction with physiology course at medical faculties in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Background: Constant evaluation of curriculum's quality is a necessity for medical faculty to achieve desired learning outcomes and to comply with standards of excellence. Summary of work: 171 medical students at the Faculties of Medicine in Osijek, Split (Croatia) and Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) were surveyed after the end of physiology classes, irrespectively of their success on the exam. They were asked to evaluate teachers’ quality, effectiveness of used teaching tools, sufficiency of proposed literature, distribution of time in the curricula, and whether the curriculum prepared them for vertical and horizontal integration of the knowledge. Summary of results: Physiology course was scored intermediate (4.14/5). 53.9% students rated teachers as excellent. Students in Mostar (10.26%) considered their acquired knowledge less integrative then students in Osijek (2.94%) and Split (1.56%). Osijek students were the most frequent users of internet (28%) and Split students of additional sources of reading (68%). Conclusions: Overall, students are satisfied with most aspects of physiology classes. Fields to be improved are students’ active involvement during practices and level of interlinking between clinical practice and basic science. Take home message: Physiology courses at surveyed schools are consistent in their quality. Continuous implementation of new knowledge and adjustments to students' needs should be part of everyday teaching.

education; physiology course

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