A SHORT PROJECT ON HEMATOLOGY SKILLS BETWEEN MBBS AND BDS STUDENTS.

Divyashree N Uchil*, Msc, Tutor, Dr Satish Kumar NS , MD, Associate Professor, Dr Roshan Suresh, MD, Assistant Professor, Pavana Krishnamoorthy, Msc, Tutor, Dr Shwetha Rao, BAMS, Msc, Tutor

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Medical colleges are conducting 2 hours of practicals for MBBS students and 2 hours of practicals for BDS students. Students and teachers ratio are the same. Teaching methodology is also identical. The practicals are started with an introduction to practicals followed by a demonstration for about 20 minutes .Then students are made to do the practicals and then evaluated. We would like to analyse whether MBBS students are learning better skills or BDS students. Aims and Objectives: This study was undertaken to compare the hematology skills of MBBS and BDS students. Materials and Methods: This study was done on 40 students of our medical and dental college. Parameters studied were total RBC count and their total hemoglobin concentration. Values obtained were analyzed by unpaired t test. Results: Mean and std deviation of RBC count and hemoglobin concentration in MBBS boys are 5.031±0.6614 and 13.82±2.8275 respectively. Mean and std deviation of RBC count and hemoglobin concentration of BDS boys are 6.096±0.7100 and 12.82±2.1857 respectively. Mean and std deviation of RBC count and hemoglobin concentration in MBBS girls are 4.918±1.0194 and 12.41±1.441 respectively. Mean and std deviation of RBC count and hemoglobin concentration in BDS girls are 4.453±0.9493 and 11.94±1.2995 respectively. Conclusion: MBBS boys and girls are having better practical skills compared to BDS boys and girls. When BDS girls are compared to MBBS girls they are not significantly different as even BDS girls are having values closer to normal values.

Keywords: RBC count, Hb, Practical skill, MBBS and BDS.