WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Dr. Firdous Jahan*, Dr. Muhammad A. Siddiqui, Maryann Radiance Aguiar, Muzna Said Rashid AL Asmi

ABSTRACT

Medical education is now student centered and medical students are responsible for their own leaning choice and in depth learning. The ability for physicians to think critically is the key in reducing medical errors. There is a need to change the strategy to give them the opportunity to become a self-directed learning (SDL) and lifelong learner. The learning attitude of student identifying their learning needs. The aim of the study was to explore medical students’ learning approach and factors influencing self-directed and in depth learning. A cross sectional study was conducted at College of Medicine and Health Sciences, National University Science and Technology, Sohar Oman. A convenient sample size was obtained from pre medical, pre-clinical and clinical students consented to participate was included in the study. Data collection was carried out using a structured self-administered questionnaire. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics 24.0). A total of 362 medical students were participated in the study of which 119 (32.9%) were pre medical students, 131 (36.2%) were pre-clinical students and 112 (30.9%) were clinical students. Among all participants, 97 (26.8%) were male and nearly one quarter of participants (24.6%) were Non-Omani. Statistically significant difference (p

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