Medical Graduates’ Perception on Curriculum Implementation at Eastern University, Sri Lanka

Abstract

Graduates’ perceptions have seldom been taken as major inputs for assessing the effectiveness of implementation of curriculum, even though they are major informants. Thus, the study aimed to assess graduates’ perceptions on curriculum implementation at Faculty of Health-Care Sciences (FHCS), Eastern University, Sri Lanka (EUSL). It was a descriptive study, conducted among 1st batch medical graduates (N=27) of FHCS, EUSL. Non-probability sampling method was used to collect convenience samples from study population. Self-administered questionnaire were used to collect graduates’ perception. It was developed based on codes of practice on student feedbacks. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the students’ perceptions. The graduates perceived satisfaction with most of the teachinglearning methods, early clinical exposure and integrated modules. Meantime, they (57.9%) perceived less satisfaction with practical demonstration. The graduates agreed that problem based learning, group study and self-directed learning were helped them to learn a lot. The 84.2% of the graduates perceived that, end module examination was helped them to achieve the learning objectives. The curriculum implementation in FHCS, EUSL is positively perceived by first batch of medical graduate of FHCS, EUSL