Vinod V Wali

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Chronic renal failure is a disease characterised by progressive loss of function of kidney over a period of months and years, and it may lead to one of its recognised complications such as anaemia, cardiovascular diseases and end stage renal disease. Hemodialysis is a method that is used to achieve the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine, urea, free water from blood by an artificial kidney machine, when the kidneys are in a state of renal failure. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare serum urea, creatinine, sodium, potassium chloride levels in chronic renal failure patients before and after dialysis. The levels of serum urea, creatinine, were found significantly lower in patients after receiving hemodialysis, while electrolytes came to normal. This study confirms the role of dialysis in prognsis of patients of chronic renal failure. Keywords: Biochemical, Dialysis, Extracorporeal.

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Introduction: Teaching in various medical college, worldwide has gone under lot of changes by the use different methodologies like the use of chalk piece to power point presentations (PPT) and virtual simulations. Clinical Medical Physiology is a 1st year subject in Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course and often students find the subject difficult and too much. Trials by the use of single or multiple tools for teaching clinical medical physiology, in addition to conventional teaching, have been found to be useful. Physiology, implies student’s active participation in the teaching process for better acquisition of necessary knowledge and skills. Hence, judicious & optimum utilization of these teaching hours is of real importance for attaining the specified objectives. Aim: To know the preferences and the expectations of the existing methods of lectures in Physiology by the first professional MBBS students. Materials and Methods: A pre prepared and validated questionnaire was used to collect data from the first MBBS students. Results: Out of 150, study participants, 60 were male students and 90 were female students. Discussion and Conclustion: The most preferred teaching method by the students was interactive followed by didactic lectures. Feedback from the students enhances a change in pre-conceived notions about teaching learning principles to meet their expectations. Keywords: MBBS students, Teaching- learning methods, Clinical medical physiology.

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