Volume 25, Issue 113, July 2021

Evaluation of medical parasitology learning activity in undergraduate medical and nursing students at Universitas Padjadjaran

Afiat Berbudi^1,2,3♦, Naufal Harits Sunnii⁴, Kurniawan⁵, Kurnia Wahyudi⁶

¹Department of Biomedical Sciences, Parasitology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
²Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
³Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pasundan, Bandung, Indonesia ⁴Undergraduate Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
⁵Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
⁶Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Parasitology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia

ABSTRACT

As a tropical country, the incidence of infectious diseases caused by parasites in Indonesia is still high. Therefore, local medical and nursing students need to be equipped with adequate knowledge of medical parasitology. Considering that education is affected by several variables, summative evaluation at the final examination seems unable to demonstrate the clear effect of learning experiences on the level of students' comprehension. Consequently, a study was conducted using pre- and post-test scores to determine the degree of comprehension after learning medical parasitology of undergraduate medical and nursing students at the faculty of medicine and nursing, respectively, at the Universitas Padjadjaran. A cross-sectional design was used focusing on secondary data, which included 1,271 samples from pre- and post-test scores from medical parasitology lectures and laboratory activities at the university. A paired t-test and an alternative Wilcoxon signed-rank test were used to analyze the data. The comparison analysis of post-test and pre-test scores in laboratory activities showed a significantly increase in the classes of 2015 (40.70 vs. 85.78; p<0.001), 2016 (46.11 vs. 88.17; p<0.001), 2017 (50.00 vs. 92.86; p<0.001), and 2018 (39.13 vs. 90.48; p<0.001). Similarly, following a lecture on nematode and cestode, the scores increased significantly in the classes of 2017 (14.29 vs. 52.38; p<0.001) and 2018 (33.33 vs. 90.48; p<0.001). Furthermore, there was a significant score increase after the protozoa lecture in the 2018 class (26.67 vs. 86.67; p<0.001). This study found that both lectures and laboratory activities at the Universitas Padjadjaran improved the students' understanding of medical parasitology.

Keywords: learning evaluation, medical parasitology, pre-test, post-test, understanding level

Medical Science, 2021, 25(113), 1725-1730

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