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R&D neglected in Muslim countries
By RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO ARAB NEWS STAFF
Published: Apr 27, 2012 00:47 Updated: Apr 29, 2012 16:55
A doctor at King Saud University said yesterday that from 700 to 1700, the
Muslim world produced many of history's finest scientists and
technologists.
Sultan Meo said that although the light of knowledge had largely been
extinguished from the Muslim world, it survived, and indeed flourished,
elsewhere.
Meo was talking at the concluding session of the five-day Saudi
International Medical Education Conference (SIMEC2012) organized by the
College of Medicine at Imam University in Riyadh.
In his presentation on science and medical education in the Muslim world,
Meo said the Muslim world has a vast geographical spread of approximately
1.27 billion people. In the Muslim world, most countries have significant
natural resources.
He said annual spending on science, research and development in Muslim
countries is 0.2 percent of the gross national product, with only a few
Muslim countries shifting toward a culture of scientific knowledge, and
adopting new tools of science and technology in general and medical
education in particular.
He claimed that in the Muslim world biomedical and medical education
journals are substantially less in number compared to those produced by
universities in other countries and many of these journals do not have
online access or indexed in major bibliographical databases.
The majority of indexed journals, however, do not have a stable presence
in the popular Pub-Med database. There are numerous factors that have been
cited to explain the current status of science and medical education in
Muslim countries.
These factors include lack of research, scientists, medical educationists
and insufficient integration within the international scientific
community. Moreover, most of the Muslim countries do not have national
science policies based on their local needs and available resources, he
said.
Discussing the perception of Saudi female higher education students using
Web-based videoconferencing, Eman T. Mechana said there is a lack of
studies focusing on Web-based videoconferencing applications in the
context of Saudi female higher education.
"We conducted a case study among two groups of Saudi female medical
students in King Abdul Aziz University to explore their perceptions of a
lesson when delivered via Web videoconferencing and how do real time
communications through Breeze change the learning and teaching environment
and activities. The perceptions of the two lecturers were also explored,"
she added.
Breeze was used to mediate two lessons, one for 15 undergraduate students
and another for 15 postgraduate students. A number of data-gathering
techniques were used including questionnaires, interviews and observations
to gather responses and a qualitative approach of thematic analysis was
used to identify themes in the perceptions of students and lecturers, she
said.
This study represented a shift from what these female students are used to
in terms of interaction with a male lecturer. The shift took the form of
increasing the perceived quality and deeper interaction throughout the
lesson compared with traditional environments. The study is in favor of
using Breeze in Saudi female higher education, she said.
Mahmoud Mahmoud at Al-Imam University, who spoke on improving the patient
experience starting from medical education, said patient satisfaction was
important.
He said the patient's experience starts with his expectation before his
visit and subsequent appointment call. The next steps include reception,
investigation, examination and diagnosis through to the dispensing of
medicine and leaving the place with a next appointment order or a cure.
Patients rarely remember or talk about the rational, functional benefits
received during a visit to a health service provider, he said.
Therefore, outstanding patient experiences must be planned and
predictable, not random and occasional, and this can be achieved through
analyses of patient experience at each stage of the visit.
Talking on the Cynefin framework as an approach for change management in
undergraduate medical education, Ayesha Abdullah from Peshawar Medical
College in Pakistan said over the past 40 years the landscape of medical
profession has witnessed massive changes in medical education and societal
expectations from the profession. One such change, the shift from a
conventional system of medical education to an integrated system offers
promising outcomes but the journey could be tricky, she said.
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