Abstract

Malathi Balamurugan*

ABSTRACT

Background: The use of movie clips or whole movies to help educate learners about bio-psycho-social-spiritual aspects of health care is called Cinemeducation. This is one of the few studies in world using this method as an adjunt teaching tool on Academic front. Aim and Objectives: To test the relevance and usefulness of movie clippings in teaching an academic session to first year medical students and to know if the pass percentage increases after the intervention. Method: In this Quase experimental 100 first year medical students were chosen for the study. An MCQ pattern pretest was conducted on a specific topic. Movie clips related to the topic latter was shown on the same topic. After this intervention a posttest was conducted. The results of the tests were analysed using Paired t test, MacNemar?s tset and Chisquare test. Results: Statistically significant increase of 0.99 p< 0.0001 was obtained between Average Marks scored by the Students in the pretest (5.02 +- 1.60) and posttest (6.01+- 1.60); a Pearson?s correlation analysis of the study groups showed that the entire group were positively correlated . Calculated Effect size Cohan?s d was 0.612, the average of learning gains, g=11.8%, average normalized gain (g) was 19.9% denoting moderate to high practical significance of the learning process. Conclusion: Cinemeducation as an adjunt tool will improve the student?s academic performance.