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Original Article

Abstract

Objective: To determine the perception of medical students towards mentor-mentee system in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of UNIMAS.

Methods : It was a cross-sectional study involving all 104 year two and 80 year five medical students.  Self-administered questionnaire consist of socio-demographic, general perception on mentor-mentee system, academic support, personal development, and emotional and psychological support was distributed.  The data was entered and analysed using the SPSS version 19.

Results :  Majority of the subjects had a positive outlook towards the mentor-mentee system with a range of 45.6% to 57%.  Three of the top rated perception were mentor analyses mentee’s examination results and provides constructive feedback, mentor advises how to improve academic performance, and mentor gives encouragement and support for the challenges faced (66.8%, 68.0% and 62.9% respectively).  Pre-cinical medical students had significantly better perception on mentor-mentee system than clinical students (p≤0.002) while those with non-clinician mentors significantly had better perception than those with clinician mentors (p≤0.003) on the system.  No significant difference was found between perception of males and females for all components (p=0.234 to 0.722).

Conclusions : The mentor-mentee system was found to be successful as more than half of the respondents had posititve perception on the system and its aspects. However, pre-clinical students benefited more compared to clinical students, which reflect the need to look at the support given to clinical students.  It was recommended that future studies should incorporate the perceptions of mentors.

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About the Author

Whye Lian Cheah
Department of Community Medicine & Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. 
Malaysia

Nan Ommar
Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. 
Malaysia

Tan Sze Fern Joanne
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. 
Malaysia

Surizi Ismail
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. 
Malaysia

Tengku Sarah Tengku Mohd Sharifudin
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. 
Malaysia

Syn Hwan Wong
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.

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About The Authors

Whye Lian Cheah
Department of Community Medicine & Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
Malaysia

Nan Ommar
Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
Malaysia

Tan Sze Fern Joanne
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
Malaysia

Surizi Ismail
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
Malaysia

Tengku Sarah Tengku Mohd Sharifudin
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
Malaysia

Syn Hwan Wong
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.

Original Article

Abstract

Background: Health is a fundamental human right and integral to human-well being .Health, health care and economy of a nation is always interrelated. Health economics is the sub-discipline of economics dealing with the issues of scarcity of resources, opportunity cost, prioritization and choice in health sector. Even though this field of specialization is gaining its importance all over the world, not included in the medical curriculum of many developing countries including Ethiopia.

Objective: to assess the extent of knowledge and awareness on health economics and economic evaluation techniques among medical doctors, Ethiopia

Methods: qualitative explorative study. Information collected through interviews with randomly selected 25 medical professionals from Jimma University specialized hospital.

Results: out of 25 respondents nobody has any academic exposure on health economics and related concepts at undergraduate/ postgraduate level. Medical professionals who are holding administrative positions also never got the chance of getting trained in this field.  28% of the respondents heard about economic evaluation techniques and 88% of them believe that application of health economic techniques will improve the performance of health care delivery system of Ethiopia.

Conclusion; Medical curriculum should be updated according to the need and health economics should be included. Health professionals and policy makers must familiarize the ways to allocate valuable resources in an effective manner. Medical educators must therefore adapt their curricula to teach future physicians the skills for practicing medicine in an evolving health care environment especially in the context of poor resource settings.

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About the Author

Devi Nair
Department of Health Planning and Management, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma university, Ethiopia 
Ethiopia

Kora Tushune
ssosiate Professor, Health Policy and Economics, Department of Health Planning and Management, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma university, Ethiopia. 
Ethiopia

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