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I have a new experience in community based programme RFST.
Background and Objectives: Residential field site training (RFST) is an approach to community based education (CBE) in undergraduate medical curriculum in Bangladesh. Hospital-based education is no longer the only place to train doctors for the 21st century as it fails to develop generic skills of doctors. Society expects tomorrows’ doctors should be a good care provider, decision maker, communicator, leader and manager, which are the generic skills and have been advocated by WHO, as five star doctors. The objective of this paper is to identify the students and teachers’ perceptions of RFST.
This picture indicates, here we went to a school and there we measurement of health status of school Children.
Methods: It was a questionnaire survey carried out among 3rd year undergraduate medical students and teachers of Gonoshasthaya Medical College the RFST programme in 2019. Data was collected using a common questionnaire from a sample of 40 students and 24 teachers who participated in RFST. Results: Most of the students (78-98%) and teachers (88-96%) felt that RFST provides students an opportunity to aware of common rural health problems, develop a caring attitudes and assists to develop their generic skills.
Our RFST programme was held in Vola district, Bangladesh. We were visited many villages in charfasion, vola such as charaycha,Dokkhinaycha,Uttaraycha etcand there we collcted various data about health problem of these villages. We asked them about their daily routine work. We also visited upazilahealth complex.
Conclusion: As an approach to CBE, RFST provides a real life exposure and helps to develop generic skills in future doctors. CBE requires a close collaboration between health and educational administration and should not be seen as a separate entity. Resources and their proper utilization are important for an effective CBE. Key words: residential field site training, generic skills development, tomorrows’ doctors.