Mounting Need Assessment of Medical Faculty: to Shift from Tradtional to Integrated Curriculum

Abstract

Introduction: FDP is an integral part of any organization to improve the expertise and skills of the faculty that is needed to indorse educational excellence. It is an important tool to enhance student learning and ultimate patient care. To get maximum benefit it must be well formed, properly executed and evaluated. Needs of faculty and institution play important role in organizing faculty development program. Aims & Objective. Current study was conducted to explore professional needs of medical faculty required for implementation of integrated curriculum in various medical colleges of Lahore. Material & Method: This is a descriptive cross sectional study conducted during the period of August to October 2019. Online google form was developed to identify the area of concern. It has two parts, demographic and faculty need assessment. Need assessment questionnaire having six domain (teaching and learning, assessment, curriculum, research, publication and community services) that comprises of 38 items. Each item has five point Likert scale (Strongly disagree to strongly agree). Link of this form was share with the medical faculty through whatsApp and email. Medical teaching faculty were asked to fill the survey form. Result: The response rate was 73%. All Participants exhibited more interest in areas especially teaching competance(70%), publication competence(78%), community services(69%). Whereas express comparatively less interest in research competence(63%), curriculum(63%) and assessment(60%). Conclusion: Need assessment is basic and fundamental part of any FDP. This survey enabled us to identify the concerns of our faculty and areas that needs enhancement in faculty development program. Keywords: Faculty development program, integrated curriculum , need assesssment