การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบการเรียนรู้วิชาเภสัชวิทยาของนักเรียนแพทย์ทหารในหลักสูตรบูรณาการกับหลักสูตรเดิม

บทคัดย่อ

Phramongkutklao College of Medicine has changed the curriculum from discipline oriented and lecture-based (conventional)  to integration and problem-based courses. It is not known whether these changes will affect the learning  achievement in pharmacology courses or not. We compared the essential knowledge in pharmacology between  two medical cadet classes who had learnt in conventional and integration courses during the transition period (year 2003-2004). One hundred multiple choice questions covering all the topics in pharmacology were selected.  The degree of difficulties (p value) were analyzed from each question for both groups of students and compared.  The average p value for all set of the questions are not significantly different between the two student groups indicating non-difference in pharmacology knowledge. The students attending integration course have better   erformance in some topics: i.e. antimicrobial agents. This may be due to better understanding in the correlation  study with microbiology topics and with more emphases on clinical applications in the integration course.  Several factors however may be involved in the student learning achievement and more extensive study should be encouraged.